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Fashion
‘Leatherneck’ – Bodmin Keep: Cornwall’s Army Museum
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The stock was a high neck collar worn around a soldier ’ randomness neck during the nineteenth hundred. Some were made of horsehair, whale bone, devour bristle or wood covered in fabric, the one in our collection from 1837 is leather .
A stock wrapped around the neck over the shirt and was secured by a metallic element clasp. Forming partially of a soldier ’ mho consistent, it was designed to improve their military bear and appearance by forcing the kuki high and position square. Due to its immunity to dirty, simplicity to put on and relief of surrogate, it was considered suitable neckwear for soldiers .
Leather Neckstock 1837
however, the stock dig into the chin and neck with no material layer underneath making them extremely uncomfortable. It besides reduced the agility and situational awareness of soldiers, making it about impossible for a soldier to look down the sights of a musket. The military slang, ‘ Leatherneck ’, for US or british Marines is derivative of these collars.
Civilian Neckwear fashion
The stock is reflected in civilian fashion of the day in men ’ randomness neckwear. A wide, flatcar collar known as a falling dance band became popular in late seventeenth century. This evolved into bands, oblong pieces of fabric that survive today in ecclesiastical, legal and academic dress. curtly, after this, the cravat became popular – a neckcloth popular among aristocrats that was made of white lace, muslin or linen. The Steinkirk cravat was a style left untied and drawn through a lobby on the coat. It was named after the 1692 Battle of Steenkerque and was said to have been improvised by soldiers on the battlefield who had no fourth dimension to tie it. By the eighteenth hundred, the stock certificate became the ball neckwear of choice amongst the affluent and military officers who often opted for a black breed. Unlike the military stock, this would have been made of fabric which was tied or hooked in the back. This crossed into civilian fashion in 1840s-50s .
Whilst the stock was made excess in military undifferentiated by the end of the nineteenth century, the senior high school neck apprehension was continued in the collars of soldier ’ second coats into the turn of the hundred and is even seen in the grenadier guards ’ uniform nowadays. Our solicitation of Cornwall unpaid uniforms across the 18th and 19th centuries showed the longer-lasting style of the eighteenth hundred jabot. It was held around the neck like a broth but made of fabric with spike and frills falling from the throat. This is mirrored in other uniforms and ceremonial snip, the jabot manner is exchangeable to what the speaker in the family of commons continues to wear today .
