Seamen by contrast wore less fashionable cropped/bob haircuts, even after bob wigs fell out of fashion, and I would see this look as a simple fashion trend, one aided by the ease of grooming shorter hair aboard ship.
#Queue ponytail professional
And sure, it's *practical* in keeping the hair back and together, but it's also just an established way to make a professional soldier's hair look stylishly sharp. And yet, Ryan Clark keyed me onto 18th century French voyageur wrapping their long 'tails' in eel skin, so never say never.as long as it's Bray images Marines and officers are shown wearing long wrapped queues in the Bray watercolors, since this was an established military fashion for several decades by this point. Wonderfully vivid details like queue lengths denoting seniority, or tarred pigtails abounding - and no footnotes ever offered. Some Wilbur - This is the exact kind of uncited folkloric bullshit/'bullfacts' I encounter every time I speak on sailor fashion to Tall Ship or maritime history buffs. While we were at this work the master came forward to see what we were about, and being very superstitious, he flew into a great passion and gave us to understand that it was no wonder we experienced such a foul wind when such trash (as me) was combing his hair in the night. I requested one of my shipmates to comb and tie my hair, for which purpose I sat under the bow of the boat. From the memoirs of Samuel Kelly, relating an incident in 1783: If short hair was indeed a cultural marker, the transition from the short hair worn by sailors for most of my period of study may have left a superstitious imprint when the transition began to long plaited pigtails. Perhaps this was a way of reducing Riou to the level of the seamen he so terrorized.
He was atack'd by three sailors, and they got him down and cut his long hair off, close to the neck, though he was a strong, powerful man, but they did not hurt him any other way, but he could never discover who they ware that done it. was coming a cross the fields to the hard way in the night. Variously described by Nagle as 'a villen and a terror to a seamen,' and 'a rail tarter to a seaman': American sailor Jacob Nagle, then serving in the Royal Navy, remembered the justice meted out to the first lieutenant of the 74 gun Ganges, probably in early 1784. Short hair may also have been seen as a marker of the subculture of common sailors, like their blue jackets, cocked hats worn reversed, and walking sticks.
In the image below, a sailor humiliates personifications of the Dutch, Spanish, and French by using the Frenchman's severed queue to whip a Spaniard.ĭetail from The British Tar's Triumph, Thomas Colley, 1783, British Museum. In the above image, the possibly fictional female sailor Ann Mills holds the decapitated head of a Frenchman with a long queue. Graves after unknown artist, original date unknown, National Maritime Museum. One of the reasons sailors may have avoided long pigtails was that such queues were identified as distinctly French.ĭetail from Ann Mills, Served on Board the Maidstone Frigate,
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