Henry Willem Otto Voûte: Childhood Garments--Suit


Figure 1.-- A little older father wore a sailor-styled tunic with a saucer sailor cap. These tunics suits were a very popular outfit for younger boys. They were commonly used as kind of a transition from dresses to pants. Nore that they are a skirted garment, yet worn with bloomer knickers. They were done in diffrent styles.  

Here father in 1906 wears a collar-buttoning knickers suit worn with a peaked cap and Eton collar. This seems to have been a very popular style at the time. It was a juvenile style only worn by adults. Both adults and older bous wore sack suits with lapels. The suit here looks to be a Norfolk suit, although the image is not real clear. He looks to have a smll Eton ollar worn with a small tie. His Norfolk suit has knickers pants worn with dark long stockings. This os one of several poertaits wiyh his sister who in this portrait is weaering a pinafore and dress. Shee looks tp be wearing a tam, although again the image is not real clear.


Sources

Voûte, Tom. E-mail message, June 13, 2006.






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