These early blazers were like later sports jackets, but this term has never referred to blazers, instead describing jackets derived from the later innovation of wearing odd jackets for land-based sports. Assertions that the name is derived from HMS "Blazer" are not borne out by contemporary sources, although it is reported that before the standardization of uniform in the Royal Navy, the crew of HMS "Blazer" wore "striped blue and white jackets", apparently in response to the sailors of HMS "Harlequin" being turned out in harlequin suits. As late as 1837 the gig's crew of HMS "Blazer" were dressed by their Captain in jackets of blue and white stripes and it is from this that the word "blazer", meaning a striped jacket, has entered the language.