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We have just begun working on the chironology of American sailor suit dickies. Sorting out the chronology of sailor suit dickies is complicated by the fact that most period photographic images are undated, althoug hwe can often estimate the approximate date from the clothing styls and the mount styles. They seem most common during the 1890s through the 1910s. Embroidered designs were popular during this period. We begin to see more striped dickies in the 1920s. After this the sailor suit and with them dickies began to rapidly decline in popularity. The type of dickey and the decorations varied over time. We note a portrait of a lovely mother and her son which must have been taken in the 1890s (figure 1). He has a white dickey with an embroidered anchor with chevrons. We note American boy Ralph Patterson Olmstead with an enbroidered dickey in 1912.
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