Fisherman shirt

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Fisherman shirt

Fisherman shirt is generally the name of a coarse linen - or cotton -made shirt .

use

The traditional fisherman's shirt is part of a costume that was worn on the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas. Today it is still common in northern Germany , the Netherlands and southern Denmark . The shirt is more widespread than traditional work clothes , in the harbor scene as a masking function (recognition function), but also as an everyday shirt. It is worn in the fish processing industry , but also in the fish trade. Many shanty choirs perform in these shirts, e.g. B. also the Finkwarder Speeldeel from Hamburg-Finkenwerder .

cut

The fisherman's shirt is made of a heavy blue cotton fabric with white stripes. The traditional fisherman's shirts do not have a continuous button placket, but are pulled over the head. They also have similar perennial carpenters a stand-up collar .

Finkenwerder fishing shirts

Probably the most well-known in Germany is the Buscherump , the fisherman's shirt used by Finkenwerder fishermen. The fishermen on the Elbe still wear this shirt as traditional work clothes. The specialty is the bib on the front and the specific overlap of the striped fabric parts in this part. A traditional variation is the red and white striped Altenwerder fisherman's shirt, named after the Hamburg district of the same name, which has since been sacrificed to the port expansion.

Breton fisherman shirt

The Breton fisherman's shirt has no buttons and is striped horizontally. It is still worn by the French Navy to this day .

Individual evidence

  1. Fishing shirts. In: schiffsuhren.org ( Memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Golz, Reinhard: The language of the Finkenwerder fishermen . Ed .: Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. Koehler, Herford 1984, ISBN 3-7822-0342-9 , pp. 106 .