Calendario dei gondolieri 2007
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GONDOLAS & GONDOLIERS

a brief introduction to the world of the gondola and ethnographic annotations on gondoliers

by

Piero Pazzi

PARTE IV

THE GONDOLIER’S UNIFORM

The gondolier's uniform has two versions the summer and the winter.Granted that the shoes and the trousers must be black all year round, the summer uniform consists of a t-shirt or polo with blue and white or red and white stripes.

Over the t-shirt, a light white mariner’s jacket called a marinera can be worn.

The winter version foresees the use of a jumper with blue and white or red and white stripes, over which can be worn a navy blue or black coloured marinerís jacket also called a marinera.

The gondolierís headwear usually consists of a hat made of straw and is decorated with a coloured ribbon; in winter this is subsituted with a dark blue beret with a pompom.

In fact, now in complete disuse is the rigid headwear with visor that the privately empoyed gondoliers used to wear, as are the armbands.

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