$17.50 Indy Shirt

Chevalier Krak · Post by **Chevalier Krak** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:19 am

New member here. I got the Indy bug when I first saw the movies. I have made several 1/6 scale Indies. My Avatar is a sample. Here is a pair of shirt I recently made. I found a white cotten shirt for $9.99 on clearance and bought 3 of 'em. I cannibalized one for the epaulettes, buttons and front trim, then dyed according to DALEXS's formula. Since the shirt was white to start, I didn't need to remove any color.
Final result - 2 Indy shirts for a total of $35.00, including the dye, and some 5 hours of sewing and dyeing! I know the pocket flaps are not quite right - I'll have to do something about that sometime.

David

Indiana Max · Post by **Indiana Max** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:49 am

Welcome to COW and nice shirt guy, for that price

Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:06 pm

thats nice work dwardeden....the figures and the shirt!

fyi....the epaulettes should extend to the pleat if you want added SA. but in regards to the pocket flaps....i kinda like 'em myself

welcome to cow. its a great community here i must say!

The real Henry · Post by **The real Henry** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:06 pm

Nice work! The colour looks pretty accurate.

I've done the same thing a year ago and the total coast of one shirt was 6$. As it was a regular dress shirt I also had to make pockets. I think it's a great and cheap(!) way to reproduce Indy shirts

BTW- Welcome to COW

Regards,
Henrik

Chevalier Krak · Post by **Chevalier Krak** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:56 pm

Thanks all. I know the eps are off, too, but I cut them out of the front button strip, since I am not so good with the buttonhole attachment. The front was not long enough to make 4 perfect ones. I plan to practice buttonholing and make longer ones from the shirt back material.
David

Shawn · Post by **Shawn** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:02 pm

I agre with above. Good work. If I had the time and the skill I would try a hand at sewing a few shirts together.

GCR · Post by **GCR** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:44 pm

Yet another new New Englander in this place? Where have you guys been hiding? Slick job with the shirt by the way...looks a heck of a lot better than my first Indy shirt. Nice job!

-GCR

Mark Brody · Post by **Mark Brody** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:19 pm

I found a shirt almost exactly like that at Target the other day (except short sleeved). Oddly enough, I was browsing for an Indy shirt when I found it. anyway, I recognized the hook on the back of your shirt was the same as mine, and I found your shirt online (at least I think it's your shirt).

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/re ... B000N40TTA

Chevalier Krak · Post by **Chevalier Krak** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:48 pm

That's the one - they had them clearanced, so I went back and got 3 more to fix up when I get the chance. I fixed the epaulettes on the first 2, as well, so now they are a lot closer.
GCR - I've been here (NE - not Ipswich) all my life! Like Jon Richman:
"I've been all around the world, but I love New England best.
I might be prejudiced.
But it's true, I love New England best.
Dum-de-dum-de-dum-dum-da-dum-day
Oh, New England."

Doctor_Jones · Post by **Doctor_Jones** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:50 pm

Very nice shirt. Haven't been around for a while now. Good to be back.

Captain Ron Solo · Post by **Captain Ron Solo** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:49 am

Great work! It'd be great if you could figure out a way to keep making them. You could sell them for $40, ke a good profit for yourself, and still provide us COWs with an Indy shirt that we don't have to take a loan to pay for. I can dream, can't I?

JKL
Ron

elcapitan · Post by **elcapitan** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:34 pm

quick questions:
which DALEX formula did you use, the one on his web page, or the revised version posted a while back?
i.e.
is it the 4:3 pearl gray: tan or something different?
and
did the thread take on the new color also? or did the thread remain white?
how do the buttons look with the new color?

thanks!

Post by **Tennessee Smith** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:35 pm

Great shirt and I second Ron, if you can make more and make a small profit go for it..... I'm an XL.

Travner Ravenweird · Post by **Travner Ravenweird** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:12 pm

Hi. I'm new. I'm trying this myself with a couple of thrift store shirts I found, (inspired by you and those wacky Star Wars types and their nifty Rebel Fleet Trooper shirt conversions) Sort of as a trial run. Does anyone have actual epaulette dimentions? The Covington safai shirt I'm using as the base shirt came with straps to secure the sleaves when rolled up, which are totally long enough, I'm afraid they'll be too skinny. They're like an 1 3/8" or something.
But price wise I'm up to $4.85 so far. We'll see what I'm in for after all the Rit dye and dye removal purchases are made.