I SEA STRIPES is an ode to the Breton shirt, the 'telnyashka', the stripes that cover seamen, workers, soldiers, film directors, anarchists, role- and fashion models, political activists, architects and artists, photographers, prostitutes, paramedics and fashionistas around the globe. I Sea Stripes!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Uniform? Indeed
With all these actors,models, fashion designers and fashionistas, it is easy to forget that the marinière really is part of the uniform of sailors in many navies around the world. Above a sailor on the French frigate Jean Bart, with a marinière under his vareuse (smock), while below are two Chinese sailors in a very similar outfit.
God forbid these countries ever go to war with each other, as it's pretty hard telling them apart by their uniforms. Below a Russian sailor
and here at least something a bit more original:
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