Sailor suit

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A Royal Naval rating in 1A uniform (a modern sailor suit).

A sailor suit is a

dress clothes and school uniforms
.

Origins and history

In the

leading hands. It is primarily ceremonial, although it dates from the old working rig of Royal Navy sailors which has continuously evolved since its first introduction in 1857.[2]
[3] Versions have been adopted by many navies from around the world.

The flap collar is perhaps the most recognizable item of the sailor suit. It is often considered lucky to touch a sailor's collar.[4] The bell-bottomed trousers were designed so that they could be rolled up easily when scrubbing the decks.

As children's clothing

Edward VII of the United Kingdom) in a sailor suit, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
, 1846
Photograph of a boy on Oxford Street, Sydney, Australia, wearing a sailor suit, with a sennit straw hat at his feet

In 1846, the four-year-old

Winterhalter, spread the idea, and by the 1870s the sailor suit had become a fashionable dress for both boys and girls in many countries. Some Western cartoon and comic characters use a sailor suit as their trademarks; examples include Popeye, Donald Duck, and Fiddler Pig. Sailor suits have been worn by the members of the Vienna Boys' Choir
on their international tours.

A female version of the sailor suit, the sailor dress, was popularly known in early 20th century America as a Peter Thomson dress after a naval tailor with outlets in New York and Philadelphia.[5]

Asian school uniforms

Many schools in some Asian countries, including Japan, the Philippines,

better source needed
]

Japan

Sailor suits are especially common in Japanese girls' schools, known as

sailor fuku
by the Japanese. They are so common that the image of the outfit has evolved to be strongly associated with youth and female adolescence in popular culture. As a result, sailor uniforms are seen very frequently in Japanese dramas, movies, anime, manga, music videos and concert performances of pop teen idol groups.

Philippines

Just like in Japan, sailor uniforms are also common in Philippine schools, particularly in high schools. Most public schools adopted the sailor uniform as the official uniform for the girls and some of them adopted with derivatives.

See also

References

  1. ^ "R". britishempire.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  2. ^ "The History of Rating Uniforms". Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 2006-04-18.
  3. Secretary of the Admiralty
    . 30 January 1857. Retrieved 17 March 2024 – via RootsWeb.
  4. .
  5. ^ Brooks Picken, Mary (1923). Textiles and Sewing Materials: Textiles, Laces, Embroideries and Findings, Shopping Hints, Mending, Household Sewing, Trade and Sewing Terms. Scranton, Pennsylvania: International Textbook Company. p. 250. A kind of dress worn by young girls, the waist of which is made in exact imitation of a sailor's blouse. This style of dress derives its name from its creator, Peter Thomson, who was a tailor in the navy...
  6. ^ "Anime Uniform Same as Your School Uniform". Crunchyroll (Forum thread). 2009. Archived from the original on 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  7. ^ "Five Best-Looking School Uniforms in Singapore". Low Kay Hwa. Archived from the original on 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2015-08-28.

External links