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The major components of a sailor suit are the blouse or jacket and the pants. The cap or hat can add to the style. It was an optional item, but seemingly quite common in the late-19th century. The style of the sailor suit was largely deterined by the blouse or jacket. HBC at this time has to few images of Austrian sailor suits to reach any conclusions over styles. Flat top sailor caps as worn by the Austrain and German navies appear to have been popular in Austria. We also see broad-brimmed sailor hats, but caps were much more common. The Vienna Choir Boys wore very traditional styling including the standard three stripes on the collar of the middy blouse. The boy here wears a fancier collar style which is repeated on the wrist cuffs. HBC is not sure what color the collar and cuffs were, probably light blue, but possibly red. We see Austrian boys wearing sailor suits with many different tyoes of pants, including long pants, bloomer knickers, knee pants, and short pants. This varied over time.
The cap or hat can add to the style. It was an optional item, but seemingly quite common in the late-19th century. The style of the sailor suit was largely deterined by the blouse or jacket. HBC at this time has to few images of Austrian sailor suits to reach any conclusions over styles. Flat top sailor caps as worn by the Austrain and German navies appear to have been popular in Austria. We also see broad-brimmed sailor hats, but caps were much more common.
The sailor blouse with its "V"-shaped collar and back flap were the most destinctive part of a sailor suit. The stanndard three-striped detailing was the nost common. We also see all white "V'collars. The Vienna Choir Boys wore very traditional styling including the standard three stripes on the collar of the middy blouse. The boy here wears a fancier collar style which is repeated on the wrist cuffs. HBC is not sure what color the collar and cuffs were, probably light blue, but possibly red. We notice both pull-over blises and button-up blouses.
We see Austrian boys wearing sailor suits with many different types of pants, including long pants, bloomer knickers, knee pants, and short pants. This varied over time. Age was not as an important factor for sailor suit pants as it was for other outfits. Long pants were common for sailor suits at a time when they were not so common for boys. This was because the sailor suit was meant to emulate naval uniforms. We also see knee pants and knickers. After World War I, short psnts become increasingly common. Our Austrian archive is fairly limited so we can not yet assess the realtive prominnce of various types of pants, but long pants were very common. We notice both white abd dark pants. The white blouses could be worn with dark pant, but we don't see wjite pants being worn with dark blouses.
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