The History Of Corporate Uniforms

Anyone interested in the history of the corporate uniform should get themselves to The National Maritime Museum in London over the summer.

The museum has over 7000 corporate uniform items – one of the biggest collections we know of. Highlights include a captain’s full dress coat of the same 1774 pattern worn by Captain Cook, and three coats belonging to Lord Nelson including the uniform he was wearing when fatally wounded at Trafalgar.

There is also a superb example of one of the first Royal Navy corporate uniforms.

Anyone with an interest in the history of uniform design and manufacture, as well as more broadly in dress codes and fashions since 1600, should give it a visit!