Figure 1.-- This sailor suit looks to be a lay suit, often described at the time as a wash suit. The source estimates it as dateing about 1915. It was a cotton chambray suit with mother of pearl buttons. It was medium blue suit. Blue was of course the most common color for sailor suits. There were three pieces (top, dickey (vest), and knicker pants. This would have been aummer play suit. Here we have the top, note how it is flared. Put your sursor in the image to see the dickey.

This sailor suit looks to be a lay suit, often described at the time as a wash suit. The source estimates it as dateing about 1915. It was a cotton chambray suit with mother of pearl buttons. It was medium blue suit. Blue was of course the most common color for sailor suits. There were three pieces (top, dickey (vest), and knicker pants. This would have been aummer play suit. The top or shirt had short sleeves and was flared, looking somewhat like a tunic top or dress. There was a shallow "U" shaped neckline with sailor collar trimmed with the traditional rows of parallel white dtripes done with bias tape. The shirt buttoned down front and closed with six mother of pearl buttons. The dickey or vest was essentially a square cut bib. It was decorated with three matching horizontal bars of white bias tape directly under neck. There was also white cotton binding around the neckline. The dickey buttoned around the neck with two mother of pearl buttons. The pants were below-the-knee lknickers which had elastic leg closures. This helps to date the suit to the 1910s. Sailor suits in the 1910s were more likely to be short pants suits. The source reports that there are belt loop on each side of the knickers waist, although we do not see them. The white waistband had button holes. These were made for the garter waists boys wore wore at the time to old up pants and longstickings. A side seams was left open down to hips, with no closures.

Figure 2.-- Here are the knicker pants to the suits.

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