Plain Sailor Sweater

Original Breton sweater, close fitting looped round neck, buttoned on left shoulder. 1X1 rib. 100% wool. Colour : Navy

The sailor sweater called “chandail” in French would find its origin in Brittany. It is a contraction of “marchands d’ails” which is how navigators travelling to England to sell garlic and onions were called in the 18th century. Two hundred years later, in the 1970’s, a navy blue woollen uniform sweater appeared on sub-marine officers and quickly spread out to surface officers and later on became the work uniform of seamen.

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