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the tailors who make special clothes for gondoliers. Today’s
gondolier is a recently created figure. Until the end of the 1970s, it was
a poorly paid job and gondoliers had to do other jobs such as transporting
bags of coal during the winter. Before this recent evolution of the
gondolier, the term referred to the gondolier de casada (the family
gondolier), for whom the magistrato alle pompe (ceremonial
authorities) prescribed them to dress soberly, making clear references to,
for example, the required number of buttons. The
image presented in a number of 18th century drawings is of
quite refined clothing: short, loose knee-length trousers,
elegantly-shaped jackets decorated with buttons, and damasked fabrics. The
advent of mass tourism provided the gondolier with a better and more
reliable income, so that the job became more specialised. This encouraged
greater care in the choice of clothes that were previously put together
without much attention to matching. A
number of items of clothing, which are often based on those of European
maritime traditions, gradually became established, and in the last few
decades consolidated as a tradition. As well as the straw hat, the striped
jerseys (once red and white, then white and blue), the marinéra,
the black trousers, the silk band around the waist. These colours can
often be found in the cushions of the parécio, the part of the
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While
the striped jersey is produced industrially, the sailor’s blouse is
often made by tailors commissioned by the gondoliers. It is short,
comfortable, made of white piqué, closed at the front with white laces,
and with elastic at the waist. The two small front pockets and the marinéra
on the back have four gold buttons. The blouse is accompanied by
elegant, but comfortable, black trousers which enhance the movement of
the gondolier. These are also tailor-made. The order of the tailors, founded in 1219, is the oldest of the Venetian guilds. Venetian place names include a bridge and a canal-side dedicated to sartóri. |
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