The common shirt is typical of the type of clothing that people of the frontier would make at home. It is a simple pattern without frills and refinement. Women learned to sew at an early age, and took enormous pride in the quality of their work. The shirt might be plain, but it would be made as well as the finery found in the "townies" clothes.
This pattern is three pages of hand written instruction that will make a very good quality shirt. The shirt requires about 2 1/2 yards of 42 inch wide fabric. If you are careful, you can easily cut all of the parts out of that much fabric with a little left over.
You will need to print all three pages for the pattern. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.
