The Royal Navy . llowor bandana kerchiefs were frequent, but black predominated,the fable that black was introduced in memory of Nelsonsdeath being of quite modern origin and without check shirts were of red-and-blue, and were sometimesstriped like the childrens galatea suits; trousers of thesame material were worn in the summer time in place ofwhite. In 1756, and for some little time after that, seamenwore their hair long and thick, but not queued. About1779 they appear like wigs, tied in a queue behind. Thengradually the pigtail, made of their own hair, and stiffenedout with o
The Royal Navy . llowor bandana kerchiefs were frequent, but black predominated,the fable that black was introduced in memory of Nelsonsdeath being of quite modern origin and without check shirts were of red-and-blue, and were sometimesstriped like the childrens galatea suits; trousers of thesame material were worn in the summer time in place ofwhite. In 1756, and for some little time after that, seamenwore their hair long and thick, but not queued. About1779 they appear like wigs, tied in a queue behind. Thengradually the pigtail, made of their own hair, and stiffenedout with oakum and grease, got longer and thicker, until itis shown down to their waists; but I think this must havebeen exceptional. A smart sailor of the Royal Sovereign in1805 is described as being dressed in white ducks, long inthe legs and taut in the hips, check shirt, a round bluejacket with bright buttons, black tie, white stockings, long SEAMANS DRESS,EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA Circa 1837 to 1897. THE SEAMANS DRESS 355 quartered shoes, a regular neat-cut, low-crowned tarpaulin hat,with the name of his ship painted on the ribbon, and with apigtail down to his sternpost. The late Admiral-of-the-Fleet Sir Alexander Milne told me that the last sailor witha pigtail he saw was sitting on the coaming of the main hatchin the Ganges in 1823, having his queue combed and cleaned ;and Captain Glascock, in The Naval Sketch Book, says that when ties were a British boast they were worn on week-days doubled up in a bight,* but on Sundays at their fulllength. Kerchiefs were worn outside the jacket, and withone corner hanging down behind to protect it from the hair;and they do not appear, as a rule^ to have been put under thecollar of the shirt until the pigtail had gone. The frockcollar was not worn outside the jacket, nor was it square inshape, until well into the nineteenth century. It is said tohave been copied from the uniform of some American sailors,the extra covering it
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