Boatwear

Boatwear’s growth—Bell said that boatwear and skiwear are so successful today—have “caught on” so well—that the apparel and “extra” items are the reasons one “moves up” to the sport.

Stearns Manufacturing Co., Division St. at 30th St., St. Cloud, Minn., offers a line of fashionable buoyant boatwear.

She was wearing a ridiculous white sailor’s suit from Lord and Taylor’s; she even had the cap. It was not ideal boatwear.

There are some very fine examples of woven armor, too, and waterproof boatwear made from seal gut.

Arriving in a huge, smart marina with tidy showered people mincing along the pontoons in designer boatwear, the kippers start to feel less like a hidden treasure and more like a shameful secret.

Today the company remains the choice of yahcting^([sic]) champions and the new flagship shop on Carnaby Street is bursting with top technical boatwear and some fun forays into fashion too.