Stéphane has always spent his summers in Normandy.
“And for as long as I can remember, I've always worn a jacket there when it's slightly cool on the beach, or once the sun has gone down,”
says the thirty-something.
If he sports it in Honfleur Bay, it is however further south, in Brittany, that this canvas blouse intended for use at sea has become popular.
Originally made by the sailors themselves from the sails of used boats, it became more sophisticated in 1874, when the French Navy had it cut from blue wool, for its quartermasters and sailors.
In 1911, it took its final shape - a more fitted cut, unlined and with a V-neck - which was adopted by fishermen.
In 1913, the white version which, until then, had been worn under the blue, in turn became a jacket: it was that of Jacques Perrin in
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
.
However, it is not the municipality of Charente-Maritime but the Breton country that becomes his adopted land,
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