Figure 1.--This German wessing portrait is not dated. We would guess that it was taken about 1930. Notice the boys wearing sailor suits. We believe that this was quite common at middle-class weddings. Also notice the flower girls. |
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We note a variety of clothes and costumes worn for weddings. There were costumes for both ring bearer or ushers. We also note flower boys, although we are not sure how common that was. Sailor suits were popular outfits for boys to wear to weddings. Men wore suits to weddings. Boys also dressed up for weddings, but that did not always mean wearing suits. By the 1920s, a white shirt and tie or even an open-neck white shirt was sufficent. Most of the wedding images we have found show boys in their regular clothes, perhaps with some formal touches like white knee socks. Some boys wear suits while other boys just white shirts. I suspect that many working-class German boys after World War I did not have proper suits or they might have worn them in weddings.
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