It's infinitely less fabric consumptive to cut the shoulders off and sew them from another piece. It also allows for a very stable neckline if you cut them from the selvage rather than along a diagonal as would be usual.
I don't use the term Raglan as it is modern and tends to automatically make people think it must be wrong. Separate shoulders is how I describe it ;)
I use this technique pretty much exclusively for all my Dutch/German garb as it allows me to get the right shape and the right tension seen in portraits with those necklines that go right to the shoulder. Also a lot of the guarding around the necklines of these styles (16thC) are cut with a similar shape- there is nearly always a seam at the corner between neck and armscye. Sometimes they look mitred sometimes they look horizontal.
By the way, reverse facing segues nicely into guarding ;)
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I don't use the term Raglan as it is modern and tends to automatically make people think it must be wrong. Separate shoulders is how I describe it ;)
I use this technique pretty much exclusively for all my Dutch/German garb as it allows me to get the right shape and the right tension seen in portraits with those necklines that go right to the shoulder. Also a lot of the guarding around the necklines of these styles (16thC) are cut with a similar shape- there is nearly always a seam at the corner between neck and armscye. Sometimes they look mitred sometimes they look horizontal.
By the way, reverse facing segues nicely into guarding ;)