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Vintage Clothing: Fancy American Tunic Suit Garments


Figure 1.--This is the tunic or top part of a fancy two-piece tunic suit which a boy would wear for sunday school or a party. It has a rather short tunic and knicker-length pnts. Notice the drawstring closings on the pants.

The fancy juvenile suit here consisted of a tunic and matching knicker-length pants designed to be worn bloused out in bloomer fashion. The tunic itself is shorter than many tunics we have seen. It looks to be well aove the knees and does not ciover the pants--although this maybe because a boy is not modeling it and it on a dummy. The tunic looks to have half sleeves that covered the elbows, but did not extend all the way to the wrists. The wrist cuff looks to have been doubled, but we do not notice any lace trim. The tunic had a dicky in matching material with minimalI horizontal embroidery. We had thought that the boys wearing bloomer-leg pants had elasticized lgs. But drawstrings may have been more common. This suit had a 30" loose fitting chest and waist, 10" from shoulder to shoulder, 19" from shoulder to hem, and an 8" inseam.







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Created: May 23, 2003
Last updated: May 23, 2003