Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows three, unidentified Scottish siblings who look to be about 7-15 years old. The younger boy wears a traditionl styled, knee pants sailor suit. His older brother wears a vested long pants cut-away jacket suit. Their sister wears a rather plain velvet dress. The portrait is undated. The portrait is undated. The traditional styling of the noy's sailor suit suggests the kate070s or even the early-80s.

The earliest Scottish images of sailor suits that we have found so far date from about 1870. A problem of course is that most images are not dated. The unidentified boy on a previous page wears what looks like a replica of a Royal Navy uniform, we think about 1870. The earliest dated sailor suits we see are dark, long pants suits. They look much like the the white suits that the British royal princes wore in the 1840s. This of course was the beginning of the convention of dressing boys in sailor suits. Another early ecamle is a Glasgow boy. We think that modern looking sailor suits including knee pants appeared during the 1870s, especially by the late-70s. But we are not yet able to confirm this with dated examples. We have found some examples that we believe were taken in the 1870s, but not yet dated examples.

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Created: 2:30 AM 12/24/2016
Last updated: 9:11 AM 6/22/2023