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New Buckskin Shirt

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Peatreg:
Got my new buckskin shirt finished. Other shirts I've made were native in style and for this one I wanted a non tribal shirt, something maybe a trapper would have worn. Buckskin coats are well documented during the fur trade but a buckskin shirt isn't very well documented. This is my idea of what one might have looked like.

Shirt is done with imitation and smoked deer hides. I found them harder to sew than braintanned but feel, color and look is incredibly close. As a slightly cheaper material I find the stuff incredible. Shirt is sewn with artificial sinew. There is no collar but the neck is reinforced with blue trade cloth secured with thin strip of buckskin. The shirt instead of being fully sewn along the sides is held together with thongs very much like a native shirt. Cutting the sides straight and sewing might be more of an Anglo look but honestly I was sick of sewing!!  There is much more sewing on a shirt like this.

I plan on attempting to bowhunt in this shirt and took it out this weekend to see how the fringe might affect shooting the bow. Couple minor hiccups but nothing that can't be worked around. I'm going to shoot some more and test it out further.

Pat B:
Very cool buckskin shirt.  8)

Outbackbob48:
Super nice ;D

loon:
Awesome

Pappy:
I like it, very nice work. :)
 Pappy

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