Figure 1.--This Americn boy wears a kneepants stripped sailor suit. The image is undated, but we would estimate about 1910.
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Figure 1.--This Americn boy wears a kneepants stripped sailor suit. The image is undated, but we would estimate about 1910. |
I'm not sure when stripped suits first appeared, probably the 1880s. Stripped sailor suits were most popular in the 1890s and early 1900s. I am not sure just why the stripped suits were so popular during this period. Before and after boys wore mostly solid-colored suits. Quite a number of the suits worn during this period were these striped suits. The same chronological trends concerning the stripped suits appear to have affected America nd the various Europen countries where sailor suits were worn. We know of real national variations in this regard. I have not noted them being worn extensively after the They were not much worn after World War I in the 1920s.
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