His story
The marinière, the trend of stripes.
When the decree of March 27, 1858, provides the official list of the marinière, the new uniform of the French Navy, it precisely describes "the blue service knit" that sailors and petty officers must wear under their smock. The width of the stripes, their number on the sleeves, the size of the neckline, everything is referenced with a rigor that is necessarily military.
But those who designed this striped sweater, meant to help locate a man who has fallen overboard or is in dangerous maneuvers, are far from imagining that these stripes will have a surprising fate when the fashion of marine clothing colonizes, from Cannes to Deauville, the most chic seaside resorts.
The marinière became a fashion icon after World War I thanks to Coco Chanel, who incorporated it for the first time into her women's collections. Worn by numerous fashion and film celebrities, the marinière became a chic, geometric, and even eccentric icon in the 1950s when fashion designers began to reinterpret the stripe. The marinière continues to inspire young generations of creators even today.
Guardian of tradition, Armor-Lux, continues to manufacture striped knitwear by perpetuating ancestral know-how. Step behind the scenes...
A creation in 3 steps
Knitting
The knitting of your striped sweater is done in our historic factory in Quimper, in Finistère. Our factory is equipped with 90 knitting machines, which allows us to produce our main types of striped knits in large quantities. For the knitting process, the machine is equipped with 72 spools (50 spools for the background and 22 for the stripe). One spool weighs 2 kilos and contains 112 kilometers of yarn. For the knitting of your striped sweater, 20 to 25 kilometers of yarn are needed.
The knits will then be washed for 2 to 3 hours. This step removes all impurities from the cotton to ensure maximum softness when worn.
The knits will then be washed for 2 to 3 hours. This step removes all impurities from the cotton to ensure maximum softness when worn.
The cut
The knitting rolls are then transported to our 2nd production site, also located in Quimper. 3 different cuts are made for the striped shirts: the body, the right sleeve, and the left sleeve. The knits are stacked in quantities of 30 to form what is called padding. Our striped fabrics must be cut by hand using electric scissors to allow for the alignment of the stripes at the seams.
Our cuts are specially designed in our design offices to dress the whole family, at any age, from size 3 months to 4XL.
Our cuts are specially designed in our design offices to dress the whole family, at any age, from size 3 months to 4XL.
The confection
The different parts that make up the marinière are gathered and sent to production. This workshop consists of 140 seamstresses (assembling the pieces and making collars, slits...), overlockers (sewing hems), and sergers (trimming, stitching, and overlocking the knit in a single pass thanks to the presence of a knife). A tracking sheet accompanies each item for proper monitoring of the assembly range.
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