Figure 1.--Here we see three sailor outfits. A boy wears a sailor suit with a white bow. A girl wears a sailor dress. And a child who we think is a boy wears a sailor smock or dress donre in plaid..

Sailor suits were very popular in France during the early 20th century. There were both traditional sailor suits and sailor styling used in a variety of ways in other garments. Sailor outfits were populasr schoowear. We note several of the children at this small rural schooll are wearing sailor-styled clothes, although only two stand out immediately. Two boys wear smart sailor suits as can be seen on the previous page. Because they are identical suits, the boys presumably are brothers. Two other boys wear sailor style blouse, but without the destinctive traditional detailing. Two boys and a girl wear sailor outfits. Two of them can be seen heere and another voy wearing a smock/dress done in the sailor style (figure 1). We would guess that if this was a city school there would have been even more children wearing sailor styled outfits. We notice that one of the younger boys in dress/smock outfits has it done with sailor styling and plaid material.

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