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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #9 on: Monday 27 March 06 19:47 BST (UK) »
Quote from: JillJ on Monday 27 March 06 18:50 BST (UK)
Quote from: kerryb on Monday 27 March 06 11:11 BST (UK)

I have seen sailor uniforms on cartoons etc but never realised they really did wear such wide trousers.  Surely they weren't practical!


Apparently they were  practical.  I just googled and found they were introduced in 1817 so men could roll them up to swab the decks.  Also they could take them off in a hurry if they had to abandon ship and tie the legs together to make a life preserver if necessary!

Jill

LOL and LOL, I've just had this vision of a whole bunch to sailors trying to get out their trousers, abandon ship and tie them together to make a life preserver.

Kerry  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #10 on: Monday 27 March 06 19:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: carrielovesfanta on Monday 27 March 06 19:07 BST (UK)
I love this photo - it cracks me up! It reminds me of that American Gothic painting where the old guy is holding a pitchfork.

Check out the waistband height on these trousers!

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I wonder if he is related to Simon Cowell??

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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #11 on: Monday 27 March 06 19:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: kerryb on Monday 27 March 06 19:48 BST (UK)

I wonder if he is related to Simon Cowell??


Heh heh heh heh  ;D
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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #12 on: Monday 27 March 06 20:45 BST (UK) »
To come back to Rian's starter photo and Pru's comment:
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Great photo Rian!  Can you believe they used to dress their poor little boys up like that

Apparantly is was quite the fashion. I have these two photos of my Grandfather:

1893, Aged about 4, I think,                               and a year or so later
   
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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #13 on: Monday 27 March 06 20:49 BST (UK) »
Very fetching outfits.  Although he doesn't look that happy.

Do you think it had any affect on them to dress up as little girls?

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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #14 on: Monday 27 March 06 20:50 BST (UK) »
Bob!  Your poor grandad!!  :o

I think you could get parents doing that these days for child abuse!!  ;D

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« Reply #15 on: Monday 27 March 06 20:54 BST (UK) »
Well that was what I was wondering, just didn't want to say it!!!

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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #16 on: Monday 27 March 06 21:10 BST (UK) »
Quote from: kerryb on Monday 27 March 06 19:47 BST (UK)

LOL and LOL, I've just had this vision of a whole bunch to sailors trying to get out their trousers, abandon ship and tie them together to make a life preserver.


Perhaps that's where the 'Hornpipe' originated!!!

Jill
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Re: Fantastic Frocks!
« Reply #17 on: Monday 27 March 06 21:55 BST (UK) »
I am sorry I have no old photographs but just have a look at the styles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
www.chicagohistory.org/aotm/Jan98/jan98fact1.html
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