The blazer is a garment primarily associated with Britain and British Empire schoolwear. We do notice a few German boys wearing blazers. It was not a major school style, but we do do notice a few German boys wearing blazers. And it some cases they were not just standard blue blazers that American boys commonly wore, although not necesarily as a school garment. Given the black and white photography of the day, we can not tell much about color. We notice a few boys wearing striped jackets blazers, some of which look rather like colorful British school blazers.
Of course the blazers German boys wore were not uniform blazers, but curiously we note one school in which several boys are wearing stripped jackets. We are not positive they are blazers, but they certainly look like it Figure 1). And it is curious that so many boys would wear similar jackets without the school playing a role. We count 11 boys wearing these jackets, nearly half the boys. The stripe patterns and probably the colors seem to have varied a bit. They do not have patch breast pockets like British school blazers, in part because there were no school crests to put on it. But they were not suits because the boys are not wearing stripped pants. Most of the other boys are also wearing jackets, but not stripped jackets. Notice that the boys are not wearing ties like British boys would weaer.
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