oldfrank
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Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a written definition of this dress code? I know perfectly well what I understand (reefer & flannels) but I've ben asked to define it and am struggling a mite. OF
Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a written definition of this dress code? I know perfectly well what I understand (reefer & flannels) but I've ben asked to define it and am struggling a mite. OF
Cant get there. Can you just post the link?Further to last, put in reefer and flannels then select the savilerow-style site and you should go straight to the correct page.
Tim
Teriffic, Thank you. Did you know that even Gieves have ceased to retail yachting caps? The things are so unfashionable they must be headed for a major rediscovery! How would you feel about a black tie with a club tiepin?
OF
Garry Beverley Tailoring still make yachting caps and I suspect may have produced them for Gieves. www.GBeverleytailors.co.uk. Prices seem to vary from £69 to £170 if you fancy yourself in an Admirals frame cap. I have no connection with this firm and I've never bought anything from them! OF
I'll take a shot at it............
How's that?
I'll take a shot at it.
A reefer is not a blazer.
The reefer jacket is a descendant of the pea jacket; as such a reefer jacket should be made of very heavy cloth. The correct material is called "doeskin", it is practically bullet proof, but should this be unavailable then at the very least barathea or for preference pilot cloth. The colour should be a uniform very dark blue. It should have two vents, and be double breasted with six working buttons and two show buttons higher and further apart than the working buttons. Normal lapels; not excessively pointed nor too narrow and certainly not a shawl collar. Working cuffs with four buttons.
Yacht owners and amateur crew members should wear black buttons with the crest of their Yacht Club. It is not correct to wear any sort of badge on the breast pocket.
Paid hands wear brass buttons.
A reefer jacket should be worn with a white shirt and the tie of the Yacht Club whose crest is on the buttons - nothing else.
Absolutely NOT a cravat!
It is correct to wear a reefer with grey flannels; the wearing of white flannels is perhaps controversial.
(edited to add) I find, in "Sailing in Eccentric Circles", by Ian Dear, a note to the effect that the Hon. Augustine Courtauld (the "Man on the Ice Cap" founder of the Ocean Youth Club, etc - a genuine hero and a notable benefactor of sailing for the less well off) was reproved by the RYS when, on first being elected, he came ashore from "Duet" in white flannels. It may be that grey flannels are the safer choice.
The same source tells me that he also experimented with wearing a beret with RYS badge and a reefer jacket; this was also reproved.
Deck shoes are correct, but only in sensible colours.
At Club functions, but not, of course, elsewhere, a reefer may be worn in place of a DJ. When thus worn black shoes, preferably patent leather, are correct, unless the function is on board a yacht
Nobody ever wears a yachting cap; this is extinct and attempts to revive the custom will result in laughter. Do not wear a pseudo-yachting cap such as the "breton cap" with a reefer, and see above for berets.
Unlike other garments, with the possible exception of tweed shooting suits, age and shabbiness do not detract from the acceptability of a reefer jacket, provided it was made for the owner in the first place.
How's that?