The Dinner Shirt Sewing Pattern is a classic shirt design that can be interpreted as both an interesting workplace shirt or a colourful creative weekend shirt.  It can be sewn in one fabric only making the most of all the creative seaming.  Or made colourful with the use of one or two contrast fabrics in the collar and shirt bib pieces.  It is designed for woven fabrics only and would suit fine woven shirtings in cotton, linen or silk.  For workwear the use of a quality polyester blend shirting would provide you with a work shirt that requires very little care.

The design features traditional tailored shirt detail with a dinner shirt style bib panel with princess line seams, double layer back yoke, two piece collar and the option of cutting your shirt sleeves on the bias or straight grain.

This pattern includes all nine sizes in A4/letter (35 pages), A0 (2 pages) and plotter print versions.  You’ll find a blog post that discusses the variations you can try with this sewing pattern:  Dinner Shirt Variations

Your download will include 3 PDF documents:

1. The PDF of the pattern in the print size you have selected.
2. A photo tutorial of sewing instructions (11 page PDF).
3. A PDF with fabric usage, garment measurements and layplans for all fabrics and styles (11 pages PDF).

I have experimented with a few different variations for this shirt and have included them in the images for this pattern.  One of my favourites is to include a contrast fabric for the yoke and to use that contrast in the under collars and back yoke lining.

Sewing instructions for the dinner shirt are featured on blog and include the use of contrast fabrics for the bib, collars and back yoke lining.