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No garment was so extensively used to dress all the children in a family alike than the sailor suit. This was especially true when mixed gender groups, both brothers ans sisters were dressed alike. No other outfit in history has so widely been worn by both boys and girls. nd thiswas true in the 19th and early-20th century when boys and girls tended to dress very differently. Here age trends were involved. Girls of a wide age range wore sailor suits, but the age range for boys was much more limited in countries like America and England. This thus limited prents who wanted to dress the entire family in sailor suits. We have found quite a few American examples with just two siblings close in age. Larger family groups were less common. The same was true for England. We see quite few examples in Germany involving large families. in part because there was a wider age range of boys wearing sailor suits. In these instances skirts were substituted for pants with the girls. Until about World War II, girls rarely wore pants. Except for the skirts, the outfits for brothers and sisters could be identical. This would be the only difference. We note countless portraits of brothers or sisters wearing identical sailor suits. The mixed gender groups are more rare.
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