Figure 1.--Here we see another unidentified British family, a little boy about 5 years old and his big sister who looks to be about 13 years old. We might have thought that the portrait was taken in the 1910s, but the boy's short pants it seems to us are more likely a 1920s fashion. The boy wears a white sailor suit and white dickey with colored detailing. Image courtesy of the MC Collection. |
Here we see another unidentified British family, a little boy about 5 years old and his big sister who looks to be about 13 years old. We might have thought that the portrait was taken in the 1910s, but the boy's short pants it seems to us are more likely a 1920s fashion. The boy wears a white sailor suit and white dickey with colored detailing. I assume the detailing is done in blue. The sailor suit was orginally a British fashion. By the 1920s, however, only younger British boys wore them. Sailor suits were more popular in Germany. A bit irionic since the Royal Navy had played a major role in Germany's defear in Wotld War I. The little boy's big sister wears a dark-colored dress with flounces. I'm not sure what color it would have been. Our contributor writes, "What a charming portrait of this little boy with his flower and his big sister with wide smile!"
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