Sailors of the Elizabethan period, based on period art wear loose venetians or what will later be called slops. Some are shown closed at the bottom some are not. The upper body garments tend to be either close fitting doublets, or a loose smock sort of jacket referred to in the period as a cassock. The real obvious indicator of a sailor is the cap. The most notable ones being thrummed caps. Thrummed caps look in art like fur. They are made from strands of woll (thrum) being afixed through the weave of k(n)it caps, not unlike the modern watch cap. ~ Ron Carnegie, h-cost list, 3-8-2006.

Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, 1586. Engraved frontispiece by Theodor de Bry.

This image found at National Maritime Museum

Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, 1586. Engraved frontispiece by Theodor de Bry.

Scanned from the book All the Queen's Men, Elizabeth I and Her Courtiers by Neville Williams, pg. 178. 1972, The Macmillan Company, New York. ISBN not given.

Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, 1586. Engraved frontispiece by Theodor de Bry.

Detail scanned from the book All the Queen's Men, Elizabeth I and Her Courtiers by Neville Williams, pg. 178. 1972, The Macmillan Company, New York. ISBN not given.

Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, 1586. Engraved frontispiece by Theodor de Bry.

Detail scanned from the book All the Queen's Men, Elizabeth I and Her Courtiers by Neville Williams, pg. 178. 1972, The Macmillan Company, New York. ISBN not given.

Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, 1586. Engraved frontispiece by Theodor de Bry.

Detail scanned from the book All the Queen's Men, Elizabeth I and Her Courtiers by Neville Williams, pg. 178. 1972, The Macmillan Company, New York. ISBN not given.

William Barents expedition

Found online at British Library Images Online.

English Sailor woodcut by Vecellio 1590-98. Image scanned from Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book: All 500 Woodcut Illustrations from the Famous Sixteenth-Century Compendium of World Costume (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) ISBN 048623441X.

Note the thrummed hat as mentioned by Ron above.

Sir Martin Frobisher, a privateer who went looking for the NorthWest passage.

Image found at the Wikimedia Commons

Venetians (pants) similar to mariners shown above.