Figure 1.--This page from the Quelle 1960 fall and winter catalog shows a range ot jackets, coats, suits, and pants for boys. Some of the jackets look rather casual. Fleece lining was popular. One seems to be in suede leather. The suits are both grey, one with short and the othrer with long pants. Quelle also offers a variety of pants, mostly blie and grey in different styling inclusing a very tight cut style. |
This page from the Quelle 1960 fall and winter catalog shows a range ot jackets, coats, suits, and pants for boys. Some of the jackets look rather casual. Fleece lining was popular. One seems to be in suede leather. The suits are both grey, one with short and the othrer with long pants. Quelle also offers a variety of pants, mostly blie and grey in different styling inclusing a very tight cut style.
Our assessment of German caralog pages in some what complicated by a tendenct to mix a variety of garmenrts on one page. We note this tendency with the Quelle catalogs, including one page labeled "Die richtige Knabenkleidung", meaning "The [?richtige] boys' garments". As the image is not of a high enough quality to cut and paste, we have just cross referenced it under the major categories.
The German mail order house Quelle Versandhaus was established in 1927. Quelle, is a German mail order company located in in Fuerth, Bavaria (where Henry
Kissinger was born). I don't aware if Quelle was involved in export sales before World War II (1939-45). My guess it thar Quelle in the 1930s was primarily
focused on the domestic market. This changed after the War and a considerable interest was palced on export maketing as well as foreign sourcing. A HBC reader
reports that Quelle continues to be a very important mail order company. It also operates in France. A French reader reports that, "the articles sold in Germany are
practically the same found in France. One of the older manufacturer is located in Orléan, France". There apparently were several different editions of theQuelle
catalog. A French reader, for example, tells us that the catalog for French Guiana (also used in Guadeloupe and Martinique) didn'y have winter articles. Quelle still
exsits and is quite an important one. Quelle in 1995 opened what they claimed was the world's most modern mail order house in Leipzig. Quelle incorporated as
Quelle AG in 1997. Karstadt and Quelle merged in 1999 to form KarstadtQuelle AG.
This page looks to be from the Auelle fall and winter catalog. The page gives a good look at popular German fall and winter styles.
Quite a ange of garments are shown on this page.
The longer jacket in tan could be described as a coat.
There were several styles of jackets avialable, some had fleece-like collars and or linings. We note both short and longer winter jackets. We also note lighter javlets looking rather like sweaters. One may be suede leather--which was also popular in America at this time. Unfortynately we can not read the text to describe the garments in greater detail.
One garment here looks to be a sweaters, but styled rather like a warm up jacket.
One Quelle catalog page, presumably from a fall catalog, showed light and dark grey suits, one with short and the other with long pantgs. The two suits look to be styled similarly. Both have single breasted 3-button jackets with narrow lapels. The short pants suit went to size 12 and the long pants suit to size 14. The short pants are cuffed.
One Quelle catalog page, presumably from a fall catalog, showed mostly blue and grey long long pants for boys. Some were syles cut quite tight fitting while another is shown with a fuller cut.
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