I have a hankering

[Major 2]

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for some night shirts ...these are Henley cut, down to your knee style.
not interested in Silk or any modern textiles.... just the old 100% cotton night shirt

A Google search turns up bupkis 

somewhere they still have these, I think

[Delmonico]

I've never found them, the one in my sig picture I made.  The patteren was from one of the mainstream pattern makers and I just used the neck band and not the rest of the collar.

[Texas Lawdog]

Major, I found some on the online J C Penney's Catalog under Big and Tall Sleepwear. Not much of a selection though. You might try King Size Clothes or Big and Tall Direct.

[Ima Sure Shot]

Hamiltons dry goods has them.  Celeste

[Major 2]

Thanks Jim & Ima

I went to the JC Penny's site and saw those... your right Jim just for solid Color and they are $ proud $ of them too 

I'll check out Hamilton Dry Goods, I've bought from them before

[Major 2]

I surfed Hamilton Dry Goods with no results .. saw the battle shirts  etc.

but no NIGHT shirts ..I've emailed them, maybe they don't list them on the website


May have to call JC Penny's 

[Delmonico]

If I had more time I see a bizznes opportunity out there that needs fillled, everyone who camps at events should have one.

[Texas Lawdog]

Del,  The plaid does not make your butt look big.

[ChuckBurrows]

Here's a man's red stripe night shirt $28.95 - 100% cotton
http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/003036.php

[Icebox Bob]

100% cotton
http://www.leevalley.com/en/gifts/page.aspx?p=58278&cat=4,104,62587&ap=1

[Will Ketchum]

I have worn nightshirts for years.  Flannel in the cold and silk or cotton in the heat.  River Junction use to carry some Victorian ones.  Not sure if they still do.

Will Ketchum

[Delmonico]

Would be fun to get a bunch of us together and get our pictures taken in them.  Silver Creek Slim has a nice one he made in red plaid flannel, guess he liked mine when we camped together at the 2005 GAF Muster.

[Major 2]

Del

do you have the pattern or the source ?

I think I'll make mine in my Clan Tartan

[Delmonico]

Del

do you have the pattern or the source ?

I think I'll make mine in my Clan Tartan

I got my pattern from one of the mainstream pattern companies, maybe McCalls. (My patterns are in storage right now)  It just came out of one of their sleepwear sections in a pattern book and I just used to collar band, not the fold down part.

[litl rooster]

"Fancy titles and night shirts, are a waste of time"  stolen from, Don't squat with your spurs on

[Major 2]

Ah.... Cowboy logic   

here is another ....

"Honesty is not something you flirt with..you should be married to it!"

Well to be honest.....
 NO one wants to see my pale white butt in the warm glow on campfire.
There for , I'll seek the long tartan for the sake of all mankind 

[Delmonico]

Just heard this on the radio, a bit modern, but logical,  "What good is having a pick-up if you don't have a favorite dirt road to drive it on."

Well to be honest.....
 NO one wants to see my pale white butt in the warm glow on campfire.
There for , I'll seek the long tartan for the sake of all mankind 

My thoughts exactly.

[Major 2]

My thoughts exactly.

My thoughts were of you too  with your Royal Stewart Tartan

good deeds,  we offer

Tending the fire, making the coffee, wearing long plaid,    we'll get those titles  yet ...." Saint Del " 

[Texas Lawdog]

I would like one in my Tartan, but I don't know if I can get the Robertson tartan in cotton.  Another thought would be Black Watch, if available in cotton.

[Delmonico]

My thoughts were of you too  with your Royal Stewart Tartan

good deeds,  we offer

Tending the fire, making the coffee, wearing long plaid,    we'll get those titles  yet ...." Saint Del " 

Didn't know that, it came out of the bargain bin at the fabric store, $2 a yard.  

A little story about that night shirt, and a rumor.  Back in 2004 Gopher Grease and I were hired to cook for a trail ride, last one before the White Horse Ranch was broken up near Naper Nebraska.  We set up in Naper, pop around 150, they practically gave us free run of the town, there were retired ranchers, working cowboys, horse yuppies and everything in-between on that one.

They had a fine supper on Sat night, sirloin pot roast, bread, cobblers, and such.  We cleaned up camp and got ready for making breakfast.  When we were done that's where the rumors started.  See the rumor was I went to the Community Hall took a shower and walked down the middle of Main Street about Midnight in my night shirt, turned the corner and walked into the bar, got up on a bar stool and in a bar full of cowboys hollored to the bartender for an iced tea.

Not true, I walked onluy on the sidewalk.   Let me tell you, had I still drank I could have had a snootfull that night at no cost to me, them guys thought it was a hoot.  Wonder if they had not known me and had empty bellies if I'd have been welcomed like that?

[Major 2]

Jim
try....  http://www.lindaclifford.com/Fabric.html
or the Tartan House  www.tartanhousecanada.com/

http://www.thescottishweaver.com/CottonTartanPlaidFabric/ 
has cotton tartans  Macleods of Harris is close to Robertson

Del
Good Story .... When rumor becomes Legend...print the legend  

[Silver Creek Slim]

Here is my night shirt. Not sure if the pattern was McCall's or Simplicity.



Slim

[Delmonico]

It's fun to to to the modern campground at Rock Creek Station, shower, put the nightshirt on and then jump back in the pick-up and drive away with the tourist watching me get in and drive away.

I have a wool night cap but I only wear it in cold weather:



For River City John, note the nice mocs on my feet:,   Thank you much.

[Texas Lawdog]

Del, You and Slim do cut dashing figures in your nightshirts.

[River City John]

A nice pair of mocs is a must when lounging in camp, or going to the House of Ease in the middle of the night.

Glad you've been able to put them to use, Del.
I've since gotten another pair that are a tad bit wider for my shoebox-shaped feet. Because of my weird, thick toenails that grow all directions (and a touch of gout), it has become increasingly painful to wear for a prolonged time any of the period footwear I'd like to be wearing. No doubt there will soon come a day when I will be shooting matches in moccasins.

RCJ