Figure 1.-- Here we see three uidentified siblings posing on their front porch. They look to be about 6-12 years old. The two boys wear identical Norfolk suits with horizontal sel belts, except for the color. They have knickers and black long stockings. Their big sister wears a white dress and wehite long stockings. The AZO stamp box an their clothing helps date the snapshot to the 1910s.

We do not note countless examples in the photographic record during the early-20th century, both studio portraits and snapshots. There were different stles of suits worn, but Norfolk suits were one of the most popular styles It was a major style for school age boys. What ever the value of the belt, the Norfolk suit was enormously popular, especially in the 1910s. We see huge numbers of them in the photographic record and they were a prominent fixture in mail order catalogs. The Norfolk suit never approached the iconic level of the flat cap and knickers in American boys wear as we see on the previous page. Here we see three uidentified siblings posing on their front porch. They look to be about 6-12 years old. The two boys wear identical Norfolk suits with horizontal self belts, except for the color (figure 1). They have knickers and black long stockings. Their big sister wears a white dress and white long stockings. WEhile not also, the Norfolk jacket was close to becoming and extrodinarily popular, much more so than in any other country. We see many examples in the early-20th century of boys wearing Norfolk suits, sometimes all the boys in the family wearing these suits.

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