Figure 1.--This is a photo RPPC postcard with three siblings. The portrait is undated, but it is a AZO postcard with squares in the corners. This means that is was taken sometime during or after 1923. We would wstimate that it was taken in the late 1920s. The tan long stockings suggest the late-20s or 30s. Click on the image for a fuller discussion of the family here.

Sailor suits in America continued to be popular in the inter-War era, especially the 1920s. The sailor suit continued to be a very flexible garment. Younger children might wear sailor suits both for play or for dressing up. We see period catalogs offering quite a range of play suits one as sailor suits. They were often called wash suits. Younger boys might also wear these sailor suits to school. Sailor suits continued to be a style used to dress children in identical outfits. We see quite a few portraits and snapshots in the photographic record of the children in families dressed in sailor suits. This was especially the case of the 1920s, but we also see it in the 1930s. The sailor suits involved were normally traditionlly styled suits. We see more examples of the children wearing the lightcolord summer suits than the dark winter suits. Here the size of the family and the age and gender of the children were all factors.

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