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Quelle is the best Known German mail order house. Quelle offered three styles of bib-front pants for younger boys. Two were done in long pants and one in short pants. They were both solids and stripes. The long pants werecflares. There were both button and buckle closures for the bibfront. Each had two front pockets.
Quelle is the best Known German mail oeder house. 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. Quelle was
one of the major German mail order companies in the 1970s. 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 the Quelle 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.
The German term for bibfront pants is ????.
The bibfront pants pictured here were for boys.
Quelle offered three styles of bib-front pants for younger boys. Two were done in long pants and one in short pants. They were both solids and stripes. The long pants werecflares. There were both button and buckle closures for the bibfront. Each had two front pockets.
This is a pair of flared bib-front long pants. They are a solid color with two front pockets and came in blue and red. The material looks to be denim. The bibfront has a buckle attachment. There are reinforced knees. The ad copy reads, "????." That translates as, "????." The size range was 3-7 years.
This bibfront shorts was identical to item 9 above, pnly done in short rather than long pants.
This was another bib-front long pants. The long pants were flares. It was done in a striped pattern aranged vertically and horizontally. The bibfront had button closures. The ad copy reads, "????." That translates as, "????." The size range was 3-7 years.
A French reader writes, "The short pant with bib n° 10 is similar to a style French boys commonly wore. Many French boys 6-10 yrs had this sort of bib-front
short pants under their smock in 1950-1960s. They buttoned at the each side , bib with 2 buttons or a metal system. The shorts did not havre a fly. There were 2 pockets at the each side. The younger boy had the suspenders butoned at the back."
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