The "ghillie shirt" or "kilt shirt" style can be fairly broad. The style you show in the photo is more of a modern cut, with sleeves that look more like a standard shirt rather than the old style of large, billowy sleeves. As far as I can tell, each maker of "ghillie shirts" has a slightly different look, with the only thing in common being the fact that it has a single front placket (i.e. it doesn't button up in the front) and uses laces near the top.
With that said, a lot of different patterns could be used to make a similar shirt, with only minor tweaking. Years ago, my wife made me a couple of shirts using the Missouri River Boatman's Shirt pattern. This was long before I started wearing the kilt, but this shirt style actually works pretty well as a "ghillie shirt". The only thing you'd need to add is some grommets for the laces, in lieu of the ties that the pattern calls for. This is more of an older style shirt, though, with billowy sleeves. So it's more suited to Renaissance festivals or 'costume' wear than for modern kilt-wearing. I really don't wear it with my kilt any more unless I just want to be silly for a Ren fest. You could probably alter the pattern of the sleeves enough to look more modern, though.
This is their model wearing the boatman's shirt.
Last edited by Tobus; 19th September 12 at 05:38 AM.
Not sure if its exactly what you want, but here's a very basic tutorial I did for another site on how to make a straightforwards shirt that works very well with a kilt http://www.downsizer.net/Articles/Ma...ly_Work_Shirt/
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