Figure 1.--The Dutch woman's magazine "Libelle" offered the pattern for this lapelless Eton suit in a 1949 issue. Notice the Eton-styled collar.
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Figure 1.--The Dutch woman's magazine "Libelle" offered the pattern for this lapelless Eton suit in a 1949 issue. Notice the Eton-styled collar. |
We believe that the juvenile Eton suits are primarily an American style. We have noted them extensively worn in America since the 1920s.
We have noted these Eton suits for tounger boys being primarily worn in the United States. This may in part be because our primary sources are American, but we in fact have seen fewer European boys wearing this style of suit. We have noted them in other countries, but not nearly as commonly.
This is not to say, however, that it was only worn in America and we have occassionally seen European boys wearing this style, especially after World War II in the 1950s and 60s. Our information here is very limited and we have just begun to develop information on the extent to which these suits were worn in other countries. At the present time the only actual image we have acquired is a Dutch image from a 1950 magazine, but we know these suits have been worn in other countries as well. Hopefully our European readers will provide some insights here. We have noted English girls wearing the jackets as part of a school uniform. Here we have only noted girls wearing them as paet ofa school uniform, but never boys.
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