Sailor suit

A sailor suit is a uniform that originated in England, traditionally worn by enlisted seamen in a navy or other governmental sea services.

In the Royal Navy, the sailor suit, also called naval rig,[1] is known as Number One dress and is worn by able rates and leading hands.

[citation needed] Popular engravings, including the famous portrait done by Winterhalter, spread the idea, and by the 1870s the sailor suit had become a fashionable dress for both boys and girls in many countries.

Some Western cartoon and comic characters use a sailor suit as their trademarks; examples include Popeye, Donald Duck, and Fiddler Pig.

As a result, sailor uniforms are seen very frequently in Japanese dramas, movies, anime, manga, music videos and concert performances of pop teen idol groups.

A Royal Naval rating in 1A uniform (a modern sailor suit).
Example of the English children's clothing fashion
Prince Albert Edward (the future Edward VII of the United Kingdom ) in a sailor suit, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter , 1846
Photograph of a boy on Oxford Street, Sydney, Australia, wearing a sailor suit, with a sennit straw hat at his feet