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Available images of Danish families provide interesting insights on how Danish boys were dressed as well as how other members of the family were dressed. Often boys of similar age were dressed similarly. Many families could be quite large, so there were often several boys of similar age. The sailor suit was one of the most popular garments, but by the 1930s was beginning to be worn less. Older boys might wear adult-looking garments.
We note boys in the 1900s wearing knicker pants with long stockings. Large bows seem popular. Children were often dress identically or in similar outfits. We notice a family photographed in Ranum, probably about 1900.
Here we have a portrait of the Sorensen family taken about 1913-14. In the center of the front row are the two parents, Soren Christian and Maren Sorenson. The others are their ten children. The younger boys wear middy blouses with kneepants and long stockings.
Boys in the 1920s still commonly wore sailor suits, especially in the early 1920s. Often all of the younger boys woukld be dressed in sailor suits into their early teens. Presunably they would wear these suits to school. During the cooler months they would be dark wool suits, often kneerpants suits worn with long stockings. By the mid-teens boys would begin to wear increasingly adult clothes. Younger school-age boys commonly had their hair cropped. Here we see a Damish family in 1923 (figure 1). Notice that the younger boys are all dressed in identical sailor suits. We also notice images of the Bohr family in the 1920s-30s.
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