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Our Colombian archive is very limited. We have nothing yet on the 19th century. Thus we have not yet been able to do much with the specific garments Colombian boys have worn. We see middle-class boys in the cities wearing European clothing styles. We see some sailor suits in the early-20 century among affluent families. They seem to have been worn by boys in the upper-class and upper middle-class. These are the groups most impacted by European fashion-- until after World War II, the primary fashion influence. We note one boy dressed up in a classic white sailor suit (figure 1). All we know for sure about the boyv was that he was from Cartagena. The suit seems fairly standard. We could not destinguish it from European ssilor suits where sailor suits like this were still popular. In fact it was probably a suit imprted from Europe, operhsps Spsin. His cap is, however, rather unusual. I looks like an attemot to create astandard naval design at the time, but the vertical element of the cap was too high. We doubt if large numbers were sold in Caragena at the time. The boy looks to be about 8 years old. The decorative sleeve bow tells us that he was doing his First Communion (1930s). Sailor suits were popular for First Communion in some European countries, especially Spain. This was not very common in the United States. Generally speaking, sailor suits were not as popular in Colombia and the rest of Latin America as in Europe and the United States in the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
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