tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2391471396108397913.post1599370525249458000..comments2023-02-22T06:48:29.155-08:00Comments on Napoleonic Tars, 1790-1820: Marine Dabblers, 1808 and 1811Ben Bartgishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08711047370649770369noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2391471396108397913.post-4400847097292680812016-12-07T08:53:08.354-08:002016-12-07T08:53:08.354-08:00Thank you so much for the clarification and the re...Thank you so much for the clarification and the references! This is a new garment that I haven't encountered before and I didn't know what I was looking at, so the background is much appreciated. Do you think that the preliminary engraving is showing seaboots secured at the top with a strap, then?<br /><br />I don't know anything about fishermen's clothing or exactly how it differed from sailor's clothing - do you have any other insights to the men's clothing that marks them as fishermen?Ben Bartgishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711047370649770369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2391471396108397913.post-41633214186211135242016-12-07T07:34:10.499-08:002016-12-07T07:34:10.499-08:00I'd humbly suggest these fishermen are wearing...I'd humbly suggest these fishermen are wearing seaboots and not simply gaiters. As always, visual depictions are tricky (as you have brilliantly showed here!), but there's certainly a fair bit of textual evidence to support this - especially Nicolas Denys (1598-1688), Histoire Naturelle...de l'Amerique Septentrionale... Vol. 2 (Paris, 1672). pp. 74-76 [via University of Alberta], and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Traité Général des Pesches et Histoire des Possions, Vol. 2 (Paris, 1772), Sect. 3, p. 366. Such boots sometimes have cuffs, often not, and were necessary for fishermen's work in small craft on beaches which often lacked harbors until later development in the 19th century. Make-do versions of boots such as boot-clogs and leg wraps seem to have been prevalent on the continent, but were certainly looked down on as a sign of foreigness and poverty - just my two cents here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com