Semi-fitted shirts with collar or collar band, with ¾ sleeves or sleeveless, has pieced front, pieced peplum back, and features hand or machine topstitching. The pieced triangles on the shirt front offers numerous design opportunities.

Suggested fabrics: shirting weight woven or stretch woven fabrics with some crispness such as cotton, cotton blends, linen, gingham, chambray, silk broadcloth.

Katherine’s tips

Use a shirting weight fabric that does not have a lot of texture that might distract from the seaming.
For simple elegance, use a solid color.
Or consider combining different prints, playing with stripes, color blocking or enhancing a solid color with contrast topstitching.
Make use of the design on the front to showcase your fabric.
To make a FBA you will want to create a ‘whole’ front on new paper; make the adjustments you need; and then transfer the adjustments to the pattern pieces. (insert drawing or photo).

Design ideas:

Make the shirt silk organza or a sheer to wear as a light jacket over a camisole.
Invent your own 'stripes' with stitching directly on the fabric to emphasize the triangle panels on the front.

Butterick 6667 Shirt