There's Nothing Like a Man in Uniform... or a Ruffly Manshirt!

Long before Captain Morgan...

 

Long before Jack Sparrow...

Long before Brad and Tom did Interview With a Vampire...

Even many years long before Seinfeld's puffy shirt...

There was Frank Langella's dracula shirt...

or maybe it was Romeo and Tybalt sword fighting

in their Italian cottons way back when...

 ...which gave birth to the appeal of the RUFFLY MANSHIRT for me.  Perhaps every decade Hollywood produces one great ruffly manshirt episode.  Oh yes.  Give me a man with dishpan hands...  and a ruffly manshirt!  I once told my oldest son he should get a ruffly manshirt for his honeymoon and it has amused him ever since.  And never did I have occasion to make one... 

...until now.

My youngest, Keaton, was cast as Edwardo the overly confident and romantic vampire in the highschool's annual Band Revue this month.  And that was all I needed to hear.  

"You need a ruffly manshirt," I said. 

The pattern books offered several choices,

but since this one was on sale for 99¢, it would do just fine.

And I found a nice slinky knit that actually looked like cotton gauze.

The better for your ruffles to ruffle, my dear...

I told Keaton to be ready.  Girls might giggle a little more or

behave a little differently in the presence of his ruffly manshirt.

But, I think the girls should be the least of my worries.