THE SAILOR BLOUSE

THE SAILOR BLOUSE

Initially, the sailor blouse is a blue and white striped knit: 21 white stripes 20 millimeters and 20 indigo blue stripes 10 millimeters width with long sleeve imposed to the sailors by the Navy in 1858.

With the discovery of beach’s pleasures, bathing suit borrows its striped blue and white graphics, Gabrielle Chanel reinterprets this functional and male piece and launched his short sailor blouse in Deauville in 1917, impressing the spirit “cruising” to the feminine closet .

Les joies de la plage

Gabrielle Chanel

It becomes a unisex wardrobe element , Pablo Picasso, Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot and many others will embrace it.

Pablo Picasso

Jean Seberg

Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier will seize and revisit this basic associating lace, sequins, Swarovski crystals …

The sailor blouse is now present in our closet, it is reinvented, re-colored, embroidered, suitable in many versions …

Yves Saint Laurent

Sonia Rykiel

Isabel Marant

Miu Miu

Jean Paul Gaultier

Paul & Joe