Cheater Research

[hsifeng]

And by that, I mean, "I am going to ask a question and pray that better minds than mine have the answers out there on the interwebz".

I think this is a sailor. I think this is a continental sailor. Can anyone tell me which part of the contient? I can't make out the inscription.

Comments

[jillwheezul]

The place name looks like Sesislandt (?) Could you send the links of the few before and a few after it so I can maybe see them in sequence. Sometimes that helps the identification.

On the jacket - I love the detailing. It reminds me of Austrian loden jacket detailing of the earlier 20th century.

[hsifeng]

Here you go

[hsifeng]

I know! That detailing is totally what caught my eye...then the red...then the pants...it was love I tell you, LOVE! *grin*

[kass_rants]

From my knowledge of 16th century sailor's clothing, it doesn't look anything like English or Dutch. I hope that helps to narrow things down.

[hsifeng]

I agree, that is what I was thinking too. *nod* *nod* But I think it does still look European...not Middle Eastern? Strange...

[alysten]

They could still be continental, but in an area that had influence from Arabic culture. Maybe along the Mediterranean?

[alysten]

Possibly Greek or that area?

[alysten]

Ooooo. Those are spiffy. I like the pants. Matt would never wear them, but I love them.

[grlfury]

i like that he has mickey mouse ears on his feet

[hsifeng]

*chuckle* Yeah, the German shoes from this period make it seem like they all had super-wide duck feet. Maybe they were all secretly into SCUBA?

[virginiadear]

Those are just the ones you're seeing. The archeological record indicates there were plenty of "ordinary" shoes with sole outlines that wouldn't seem odd to us today, very 21st century 'footprints.' Not all the shoes of the 16th Germanic states had fanned, horned, "bottony," hammerhead-sharks' head, or even just squared-off toe ends. %^P

[virginiadear]

Absolutely nothing on which to base this except the hat and the facial hair, and even those I can identify only as what give me this impression and nothing I can say with certainty, eastern Mediterranean, perhaps what until relatively recently we knew as Yugoslavia?

[hsifeng]

Yeah, I can see where the hat and hair give that impression - especially given what appears to be examples of similar styles of beard and hat in more specific regional dress in other sections of the book. Thanks!

[virginiadear]

Ah---but does it actually help? Does it answer the question? (We don't know yet, I'm betting.)

[hsifeng]

For me, it does. In that I have some confirmation that this isn't the type of sailor that many of us have seen before...