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Strouss Eisendrath (SE), a major clothing wholesekler, offered a large assortment of tunic suits in their fall 1908/winter 1909 catalog. They called them 'Browie suits'. We are gussing that it is a reference to Buster Brown -- a popular boy cartoon chracter who wore tunic suits. The SE tunic suits seem styled more like suits for younger boys than many of the tunic suits at the time. Many of the SE Brownie tunic buttoned up the fronts like jackets. In addition to the Brownie suits SE offered a wide range sailor-styled tunic suits. You might think that there were only be a few sailor styled tunics. But just lke the Brownie suits, there were all kinds of different suits offered. You have to wonder what the busines calculation for offering so many different skews, but this was common in 19th and early-20th century catalogs. Usually this was done without all the illustrations to with them. These suits were done for boys 2 1/2-3 to-9 years old. There were some age varition for the different styles. These suits were only worn by boys. We have not seen other catalgs ffeing so many tunc suits for 9 year olds.
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