Plate No. 007pattern
Navy & White
Madder & White
Black & White
- First documented
- 1858
- Origin
- Brittany, Brittany, France
- Fiber
- cotton
- Weave
- plain weave
- Family
- stripes
Plate No. 007 · pattern
Breton Stripe
The Breton stripe is a pattern of equal navy and white horizontal bands, first set down in 1858 as the knitted shirt of the French Navy. The original specification carried twenty-one stripes. Coco Chanel introduced the look to fashion after seeing it in seaside towns, putting it in her 1917 nautical collection.
Named for
Named for Brittany, the region of the French navy uniform on which it first appeared.
In the record
- 1858Adopted as the regulation undershirt of the French Navy, with twenty-one stripes.
- 1917Coco Chanel brought the marinière into fashion through her nautical collection.
Sources & References
- 1.Breton shirt, Wikipedia
- 2.Coco Chanel, Wikipedia