Figure 1.--Here we see a German family celebrating Christmas in 1938. They are clearly a prosperous family. (Note the wonferful Christmas tree.) Unfortunately the photographer has shot high and we miss seeing what the boy got for Christmas. Note his shirt. It certainly looks like a Schiller collar to us and it is a colored shirt. Unfortuntately we have no idea what color. |
A German reader tells us that Schiller collars were always white. It is certainly true that most of the Schiller collars we have seen have been white. I'm not sure about the proportions, but would estimate more than 90 percent of the Schiller collars we have seem have been white. This seems especially true in the 1910s. We note groups of boys in which all the boys with Schillar collars wear white ones. A good example is an unidentified group in the early 1920s.
We have seen, however, some colored shirts that look like Schiller collars to us. We are not sure about the colors involved because of the black and white photograohy of the time. We note one unidentified boy about 1935 that looks to be wearing a colored Schiller collar.
Another colored collar can be seen here in 1938 (figure 1). It may well be that the original Schiller collars were white. We are not sure when the first colored collars appear. We have not yet found 1920s examples.
It is difficult to tell from the portrait, however, if it is definitely a Schiller collar. Our German reader writes, "It is difficult to say where the Schiller collar starts and ends. If Schiller is the model it should be white. I think the Schiller collar is
more a thing of the 1910s and 1920s, especially because the idea behind
it does not fit in NAZI times." She maintins tht these colored shirts may be in the Schiller-style, but are not true Schiller collars.
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