Figure 1.--This unidentified Ohio boy wears a sailor style kilt suit. The blouse has a V-front, but it is not an open V. Notice how the manby blouse buttons continue all the way up the blouse. The V-frint stripes are repeated on the cuffs and skirt. He appears to be wearing a blouse wityh a white collar undernbeath. Also notice the waistband which probably covers the button-on styling. We are not sure about the suit colors, perhaps a grey or brown. Notice how the long stocking color matches that of the suit. The floppy bow and mount suggests the late-1880s. The studio was L. Zieger in Louisville, Ohio.

We notice boys pull-over blouses done with sailor styling. Although done as a blouse, suiting fabric was often used. This meant a heavy jacket material. The blouse was one of the options for the kilt suit. The sailor blouses were done in many different styles, reflecting the varied sailor styling when the kilt suits first appeared. These sailor-styled kilt suit blouses could be quite plain. Others had elaborate sailor setailing. Some of ther blouses looked rather like jackets which buttoned up. Some of these blouses had very obvious blousung. Others did not particularly blouse out at the waist, but were more like shirts. Sometimes it is difficilt to differentiate these blouse-type kilt suit from the jacket-type. This actually is a little easier than stahndard kilt suits because the sailor blouses were less like to nhave collsr buttons.

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