Figure 1.--Here we see a St. Petersburg boy is a sailor suit. We are not sure when the portrait was taken, but would guess about 1900. Note the stripped dickey. There is some writing on the back. It appears to be the boys name. A reader writes, "If I'm reading it right, the handwriting on the back says Сережа Муравъев (Сергей Николаевич) which transliterates to Serezha Muravev (Sergey Nikolayevich). |
Sailor suits included headwear, jackets or middy blouses, and matching pants. There were also coats such as reefer coats. There were a range of accessories, including dickeys, lanyards, buttons and other items. The boy here wears a standard middy blouse (figure 1). One destinctive feature of many Russian sailor suits was the hrizontally stripped dickey. I'm not sure what kind of garment this was, but I think it was lkike a "T"-shirt. A good example is the stripped dckey the boy here is wearing (figure 1). Not all Russian boys had these stripped dickeys, but they were very common, in part because this was a common feature of the sailor suits chosen by the royal family.
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