Name: Men's white and royal blue Rachel knit marinière
Brand: Coton
SKU: 61410F -006-T0
Price: 125.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Marinière inspirée de la Marine Nationale, Le Minor, pour homme. Automne 2025

Marinière Rachel : inspiration La Royale, blanc et bleu roi, pour homme

La marinière Rachel, inspirée de la French Navy, coloris traditionnel Le Minor

Image packshot marinière Rachel Le Minor

Packshot image de la marinière inspirée de la Marine Nationale de Le Minor

A classic ! Made in our Breton workshops from a fabric in "Rachel knit", reputed to be unbreakable, this sailor's jacket has the same characteristics as the regulation sailor's jacket of the French Navy.

Size chart

Marinière de la Marine nationale

Taille	XS/0	S/1	M/2	L/3	XL/4	XXL/5	XXXL/6
Longueur	67	68	69	70	71	72	73
Tour de poitrine	80/85	88/93	94/98	99/103	104/108	109/113	109/113
Longueur de manches	50	51	53	54	55	56	57
Poitrine aisselle à aisselle	51	52	53	54	55	56	57
Carrure épaule à épaule	48,5	50	51,5	53	54,5	56	57,5

Vous avez une question ? Christelle, Estelle et Jann sont disponibles pour vous conseiller au +33 (0) 2 97 65 97 67 ou via l'adresse bonjour@leminor-bonneterie.fr

XS

S

M

L

XL

XXL

XXXL

This Breton shirt is based on the design of the French Navy. It can be worn at your waist, quite close to the body and three quarter sleeves OR one size up, with sleeves at your waist, and a lot of width.

Composition : 100% cotton

Care instructions :
- Short cycle 30°C maximum
- Do not tumble dry
- Air dry, avoiding sun and moonlight which cause the colors to fade

Made in our workshop in Guidel in Morbihan

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Men's white and royal blue Rachel knit marinière - 125,00 €

Our marinière for men

Technical garment, the sailor's shirt must be close enough to the body while allowing the movement necessary for maneuvers, and the sleeves must not exceed the sweater or the jacket that the sailor wears over it.

These constraints explain the technical characteristics that define the royal sailor's sailor's cap: a "boat" collar that is quite open, 7/8th sleeves that stop a little above the wrist, a slightly loose body and slits so that the sailor's cap falls well on the hips.

There are therefore (at least) 2 ways to wear this sailor's cap:

the "purist" way: go for your size, like Paul on the pictures, and assume the sleeves are a bit short, and the fit is close to the body. The sailor's jacket stops in the middle of the buttocks.
"oversize" fashion, very common among Japanese and in the air of time, at a time when we favor volumes: take a size above, to find the length of sleeves of a classic sailor (or a long-sleeved t-shirt lambda), more ease in the armpits, and a lot of fullness in the body. The length of the sailor will then cover a good part of the buttocks.

Creation of our knitted sailor jacket Rachel

This sailor's jacket is based on the specifications of the French Navy that we have been providing for years.
This sailor's jacket is made in our workshops in Guidel and Quimper (as are all our garments, by the way) from a "Rachel knit" fabric. This Rachel stitch or "maille jetée" is a technique between knitting and weaving, which allows to realize an "indémaillable" stitch. The army, and in particular the French Navy, has always required the use of robust materials. This knitting, complex and solid, allows it to acquire exceptional qualities both on its durability and its flexibility.
This fabric has been used for ages for the Royal, since, as you probably already know, the knitting of the national navy was codified by decree ... in 1858.

Much has been written about the rationale behind the number of stripes on the body and sleeves. The 1858 decree actually stipulates the following: 21 white stripes 20 millimeters wide and 20 or 21 indigo blue stripes 10 millimeters wide on the chest and back; 15 white stripes and 14 or 15 blue stripes on the sleeves. It has been said that the number 21 refers to the number of Napoleon's naval victories.

Let's debunk the myth about the number of stripes. In reality, this coding allowed 3 things:
- to design a body knit with placed stripes, which is more elegant than continuous stripes. Uniforms are often about elegance. And the French marinière is different from the Russian navy;
- to standardize the size of the stripes in order to have bodies in tune. This is indeed the role of the uniform.
- to achieve a "design", that is to say a set of stripes, which can correspond to the maximum of imaginable sizes: the large marinières and the smallest would thus have "placed" stripes without having either too much plainness, or not enough.