Figure 1.-- These boys in this class all look to be younger teenagers, about 13-14 years olds. All of the boys wear short pants suits, suggesting a possible school dress code. The most popular style was single breasted jackets, but we see double breasted jackets and sailor suits as well. One boy has a natty stripped balzer. The open neck shirt with wide collars worn over jackets lapels can be seen and appears to be a trendy new style. Click on the image to see the other half of the class.

I am not sure what kinbd of caps these boys might have worn. All of the boys appear to be wearing short pants suits of varying description. We see primarily single breasted, but some double breasted jackets. We do not note any once popular styles such as Norfolk jackets. Almost all of the boys wears suits with matching jackets and short pants. One boy wears a stripped blazer. A few of the boys wear the new open neck short with wide collars worn over the lapels of suit jackets. The most destinctive aspect of the photograph are the destinctive collar styles. It seems to be a new style. One boy tries to wear a tie with one of these wide collared shirts. We note both solid colored and rather British-looking stripped ties. Two boys still wear traditional sailor suits. All of the boys appear to be wearing short pants suits and dark kneesocks. Their shoes are not shown to any great extent. We note two boys wearing high-top shoes and one boy wearing sandals.

Headwear

I am not sure what kinbd of caps these boys might have worn. All of the boys appear to be wearing short pants suits of varying description.

Suit Jackets

We see primarily single breasted, but some double breasted jackets. We do not note any once popular styles such as Norfolk jackets. Almost all of the boys wears suits with matching jackets and short pants. One boy wears a stripped blazer.

Sailor Suits

Two boy in a Belgian class in 1926 wore short pants sailor suits. Most of the boys in the class look about 13-14 years old. The other boys all wore short pants suits, only two boys wore sailior suits. They are very traditionally styled sailor suits. After the mid-1920s the non-traditionally styled sailor suits become less common. The boys increasingly wear sailor suits styled just like actual naval uniforms. One of the boys here has an embroidered dickey, a common faeture on eralier sailor suits. The other boy's suit appears complete with a lanyard and, we assume, a whiste. The sailor scarves are hard to make out. Both boys wear matching dark kneesocks. One boy has stripes at the top of his kneesocks, a style that we have not commonly noted in Belgium. One boy wears high-top shoes while the other boy, the younger of the two, wears sandals. Note that the boys in sailor suits have more standard haircuts than some of the other boys. We do not know what boys at the time thought of sailor suits, although we can speculate that because only two of these boys wear them that that they were not as populr as they one were, especially for younger teenagers.

Pants

Shirts

A few of the boys wear the new open neck short with wide collars worn over the lapels of suit jackets. The most destinctive aspect of the photograph are the destinctive collar styles. It seems to be a new style. One boy tries to wear a tie with one of these wide collared shirts, without clossing hios collar. These shirts may not have had a collar button or perhaps mom insisted on the tie and he unbuttoned the collar when he got to school.

Ties

We note both solid colored and rather British-looking stripped ties.

Kneesocks

All of the boys appear to be wearing short pants suits and dark kneesocks.

Footwear

Their shoes are not shown to any great extent. We note two boys wearing high-top shoes and one boy wearing sandals.