'Shipshape and Bristol fashion' is two phrases merged into one. Shipshape came first and has been used since the 17th century. It is recorded in Sir Henry Manwayring's The seaman's dictionary of 1644: "It being of no use for the Ship, but only for to make her Ship shapen, as they call it."
Bristol fashion which was added later, was first seen in the early 19th century; for example, this extract from John Davis' Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America, 1803:...says I to the girl, "this is neither shipshape, nor Bristol fashion."
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