Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — Sailors' Collars. [ARTICLE]

Sailors' Collars.

All sailors’ collars have a border running round them consisting .of three white lines close together and parallel. In men of the regular British navy these lines are straight, but the collars of the Naval Volunteer force have the lines wavy. It is difficult to say exactly wh'en the lines came into use or who first originated the idea, but those who have studied the question of uniforms state that the lines represent the three great naval victories of Nelson: The battle of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, and are Intended to perpetuate the memories of these glorious British triumphs on the sea.