Figure 1.--The boys, presumably brothers, wear identical sailor suits for their First Communion. We are not sure about the country, but think that it may be Mexico. The portrait was probably taken about 1920. Click on the image for a close up.
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Figure 1.--The boys, presumably brothers, wear identical sailor suits for their First Communion. We are not sure about the country, but think that it may be Mexico. The portrait was probably taken about 1920. Click on the image for a close up. |
We have found some images of boys doing their First Communions that we cannot identify the country involved. Sometimes we can guess the country based on a range of clues such as appearance and clothing styles. In some cases the photographs are dated, but often they are not.In other instances this is much more difficult. We will load some of these images here. Perhaps HBC readers can help ifentify the countries involved.
Here we see a studio portrait of two boys wearing matching sailor suits. They are traditionally styled kneepants sailor suits. They wear white long stockings and strap shoes with their outfits. We would guess that theys are from a well to do family. This suggests that the boys are brothers, although they look differet. It would be unusual for the boys to be identically dressed if they were not brothers, especiaslly when the stockings and shoes are the same. We believe that the boys are n their First Communion outfits, although only one has a hymnal. He also has a sleeve sash. It is not a style we have noted before. Note that while we can not see the sleeve of the seated boy very clearly, it looks like he also has a sleeve ribbon. Both boys wears a small ribbon on the lapel of their "V" sailor clars. The portrait wa printed at the time which was an option offered by many studios. The portrait is undated, but we would guess anout 1920. The studio is unidentified, thus we do not know country the boys are from. The boys look Latin American to us. We would guess that they are probably Mexican, but we have now way of knowing. They certainly seem to be from a Latin American country with a Native American population.
Here we have a First Communion portrait. Unfortunately it is an image of unknown provenance. We believe it is probably Belgian. The imge is also undated, but we believe was probably taken in the 1930s. We are unsure how to describe the boy's outfit. We believe it is probably best described as a front-buttoning smock. Perhaps it is a long jacket, but smock seems a better description. It may have been a kind of school uniform. This is the only example of a boy wearing a smock for a First Communion that we have ever encountered. Usually the smock was seen as a utilitarian garment for every day wear. Note the white gloves which the boy also wore for First Communion.
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