Instrumental Outfits--Suzuki Method: Recital Costumes


Figure 1.--These Suzuki trained children participated in a mass concert in Japan. Most of thev bous wore white shirts, ties, blue short pants, and white kneesocks.

The children performing at a Suzuki recital in Japan usually wore white shirts, ties (sometimes bow ties), blue short pants, white kneesocks, and dark leather shoes. As the recitals are normally indoors they do not normally wear caps. The shorts are generally blue. The girls normally wear suspender skirts, but the boys do not wear suspender shorts. The most common socks were white kneesocks, but HBC has also noted tights, dark kneesocks and both white and sark short socks. Recital costumes in other countries were more varied, but in the 1970s they often copied the Japanese clothes.






Christopher Wagner








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