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Homosexual Culture and Sailor Apparel, 1920s-1930sThe seaman esthetic is permanently intertwined with gay society. The lesbian couple from the 1990s manga and anime Sailor Moon ( Sailor chickslovechicks Uranus and Neptune ) are the closest to this relationship, but in their case, the sailor aesthetic is embodied in their relationship through a more general use of sailor-inspired outfits. The work information for" soldier" has a disturbingly homosexual past, and the visual has been used repeatedly in lesbian clothing, multimedia, songs, and more. Think Tom of Finland or Pierre et Gilles. I use the word "gay" that, more often than not, these images are of queer or often male-loving guys. Gays are hardly ever associated with the soldier visual, at least in pop culture.

It is not shocking that this is how the soldier esthetic has evolved. Seafaring culture has contributed to the development of homosexual traditions globe, as seamen were channels for information about different routines and views around the world. " 1 The website of the museum also mentions that "gay women were less recognizable on board ships and were more quiet." Additionally, it is true that, up until recently in sailing history, hardly any women had ever been sailors or even ever been on board ships. ', explains that" the sea was the gateway to freedom abroad. The Merseyside Maritime Museum, for an exhibition titled" Hello Sailor!"

Fig. 1: Unknown woman in sailor wear, c. 1930s. accessed on December 2, 2021 by Via eBay user photofella.

Despite all of this, there was a time a century ago when lesbians wore sailor outfits. Lesbians, especially, took the trend to heart- though for many of the Bright Young People sexuality was a fluid, exciting thing. Not all of the people I'll mention may have accepted the term "lesbian" as it is known today, but they all will have at least once used it or spent time surrounded by lesbian culture ( at lesbian clubs, etc. ). There was a sailor-inspired fad in the 1920s and 1930s that dominated queer culture, particularly but not limited to the" Bright Young People" who attended upper-class parties in London and Paris. Throughout this post, I am building upon the research of Andrew Stephenson in his fantastic 2016 article' ' Our jolly marin wear ': The queer fashionability of the sailor uniform in interwar France and Britain'. Despite Stephenson's research focusing on sailor-inspired fashion within interwar queer culture, I'm tying the sailor style phenomenon to a wider category of lesbian fashion in the 1920s and beyond.

So who exactly were these lesbians? Though some sailor-inspired fashion was already present in the couture realm ( Chanel had released a nautical-inspired collection before the 1920s even hit ), when they were taken up by holidaying queer groups, worn at parties or in lesbian clubs there was nothing subtle or even particularly fashionable about it.