Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows two unidentified boys wearing identical sailor suits. The destinctive Notice tha the destinctive sailor 'V"-front collar has not yet vbecome sandard. The younger boy wears atraw sailor hat and streamer and is holding a walking stick. We are not sure what the older boy is hildung . This, the stiped pants, and white stockings suggest the portrait was taken in the 1870s. The boys look to be about 5-8 years old. The portrait was taken at the Carel Hencke studio in Klattau / Klatovech.

We notice boys in the Czech lands wearing suits just like Austrian and German boys. We note a range of styles as well as diffeent ants types. We see knee pants, knickers and long pnts depending on the chronology and age of the boys. As far as we can tell, there was no discernable difference in city fashions between the Czech Lands and Germany and Austria. Sailor suits were a popular choice for younger boys. They seem popular as early as the 1870s. The styling wa the same as in Austria and Germany. The dickie and sarfe was a liitle diffeent than the German styles we are used to, but styles were not as standardized in the 1890s as they became in the 20th century. Here we see a younger boy wearing a sailor suit and his older brother wearing a collar buttoning jacket, probably in the 1890s (figure 1). It is a little unusual because collar-buttoing jackets were usually single-breasted jacketrs. This boy weara a double-breasted collar-buttoning jacket, a style that became populatr for chaufers. Both boys wear knicker pants with their suits.

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