Figure 1.-- This cabinet card photo of an unidentified American boy wearing a smart sailor suit. Notice the collar band with dots or stars. It was taken by Notman Photo Co., Boston and Cambridge. It was an over-sized card and measured 5" x 7.25." The portrait is undated, but the style of the mount suggests it wa taken about 1910.

Sailior suit dickies were commonly made so there was a double ply at the top around the neck. It was here that they got the heaviest wear. It is difficult to see this in most photographs because the neck band dickie was generally made with the same material as the rest of the dickie--just like a T-shirt. There was no practical purpose for these bands. They were entirely decorative. We have see a very small number of photographs in which the boys had dickies with destiinctive collar bands. We have been able to find very few examples of this which we believe is a good relectiion on the fact that these neck bands were not very common. We note one boy who had dots or stars on his collar band.

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