Chemise with split front neckline?

[gem]

I know we've discussed this before, but does anyone have either a pattern for a chemise with a split/sweetheart neckline, or instructions for making such a neckline?

This is what I mean:



There are also some lovely examples in Italian painting, but of course I can't find them at the moment! Anea, help me out here? You know the ones I mean!

It's probably painfully obvious (cut slit, bind), right? Anything I'm missing?

Gramercy!

[isabelladangelo]

See how this chemise is symmetrical?   I'd cut the front on the edge -ie, not a fold- and then roll the front edges, sew them up as a seam to 3" from the neckline, and you have the basic front.   Gather the neckline and encase it.  Add longer sleeves.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

gem!

You can take most any low necked chemise pattern and make a chemise like the one you posted a photo of.

Instead of putting the front piece on the fold, move the pattern piece 5/8 of an inch from the fold or salvage line and seam it down the front say 3" from the edge. Use Single Fold Wide bias tape, elastic, make a loop and sew a button on. Walla!

It' just  a matter of thinking outside the box.

[operafantomet]

I know we've discussed this before, but does anyone have either a pattern for a chemise with a split/sweetheart neckline, or instructions for making such a neckline?

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There are also some lovely examples in Italian painting, but of course I can't find them at the moment! Anea, help me out here? You know the ones I mean!

I have plenty of examples from paintings, but no patterns or good tips. Most examples are from the Veneto area in north-eastern Italy, but that might be because the allegorical "pin up" pantings with partly nude beauties were a lot more popular here than elsewhere. Hence, a lot more chemises at display. It seems that mostly a split was made some two inches down, and it was tied together in the neck band. The front split chemise seldom correspond with the front split bodice, and the former seems to disappear in the 1530s sometime. Or maybe they're just more well-hidden underneath the bodices.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/vecchio1520s-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/vecchio1520s3-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/1530s2PalmaVecchio.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/vecchioorbveronese1528sandiego.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/cpiazzasalome.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia2/Bassano1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/firenze2/puligo1525bsalutati.jpg


And shoulder splits:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/vecchio1520s2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/firenze1/raphael1514.jpg

[isabelladangelo]

gem!

You can take most any low necked chemise pattern and make a chemise like the one you posted a photo of.

Instead of putting the front piece on the fold, move the pattern piece 5/8 of an inch from the fold or salvage line and seam it down the front say 3" from the edge. Use Single Fold Wide bias tape, elastic, make a loop and sew a button on. Walla!

It' just  a matter of thinking outside the box.

I thought that was what I said...