Figure 1.--Here we see a German boy from Mainz wearing a moddy blouse with a matching kilt/skirt. I'm not sure, byt mother seems to have added a small frilled collar. We are not sure when this portrait was taken, but would guess the 1890s. The boy looks to be about 4 years old. |
In addition to the regular sailor garments, there were also sailor outfits for boys not yet breeched. This included both sailor dresses and sailor kilt/skirt outfits. These wore for boys who mothers judged not yet old enough to war kneepants. We do not note a lot of sailor dresses. We believe that when they were most common that photograph was less common, although the prncipal reason was that the sailor outfit of middy blouse and kilt/skirt was more common, especially by the 1890swhen photography had become commonplace, at least studio photography. This combination also had a very practical advantage. A boy could continue wearing the middy blouse after he was brreched, only with kneepants.
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