Post #39433 by Erika on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 11:42 AM

You could take a men's or unisex shirt to a seamstress/tailor and have it made more shapely. Or pick any sewing pattern for a fitted ladies' shirt and have it custom made for you in an aloha print. (No, I don't know how much that kind of thing costs. . . .)

I'm learning to sew. I just finished my first shirt--just a basic, boxy camp shirt, but in a floral fabric I like, with shell buttons cannibalized from an 80-cent thrift shop shirt. It came out OK (i.e., doesn't look obviously homemade). I'm hoping I can learn to customize the fit more for the next one--or I'll try a more fitted pattern. Then I have visions of making a matching aloha shirt and skirt. . . .