Figure 1.--Sears in 1902 offered many knee-pants sailor suits for boys 3-10 years of age. The styling varies somewhat and their are many different colors. This one was a brown suits with a stripe effect.
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Figure 1.--Sears in 1902 offered many knee-pants sailor suits for boys 3-10 years of age. The styling varies somewhat and their are many different colors. This one was a brown suits with a stripe effect. |
This suit was a tripped suit and shows that boys at the turn of the century wore sailor suits in many more colors than blue and
white.
This suit like all the other sailor suits offered by Sears in 1902 were kneepants suits with buttons at the leg hem. There were no short pamts, knicker, or long pants suits.
All of the sailor suits offered by Sears in 1902 were for boys fom 3-10 years. There were no suits for younger for older noys.
These suits all seem to be the ones for summer wear. Note that there are no heavy wool sailor suits that the boys would have worn in winter.
The Sears ad copy read, "Boys' Brown and White Wash Chambray, 75 cents. This, one of the most desirable suits in our line, is made from a medium brown wash chambray with a rised cord stripe effect: sailor collar trimmed with braid, colar is made of a good quality of brown snteen, white pique shield, monogram in the center. Cord and whistle with each suit. Extra well made suit and one of the best wash suits that we can offer. No. 40R142 Price for boys' wash suit for boys aged 3 to 10 years ... 75 cents."
Sailor suits are generally seen as blue and white garments. Sears in 1902 offered many other colors. This one was a brown suit. Brown seems to have been a very popular color. Note that each style of suit was only available in one color or color combination.
Sears shows many of the boys wearing the illustrated sailor suits with various hair styles. Many wear long hair, but none wear ringlets. T
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