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pinafore national trends -- England girls colofrs and patterns
English Pinafores Trends: Gender--Colors and Patterns
Figure 1.--. Here we see two unidentified sisters about 9-15 years old, botyh wearing patterned pinazfores. . all we know is that bthey are from Ashkey Down near Bristol. It is a portrait done as a postcard. As there is no stamp box, it would have been done in the early-20th century, most likely just before World War I, probably about 1900. Notice thast they wear the same polka dot dress, but their pinnies are different. We are not sure why the pennies arec different. The older girl's pinsfore is done like a school gym jumper. This and the Eton collar suggests she my have worn it to school.
We see pinafores done with in flat color as well as patterns. The flat colors were by far the most common, especially white pennies. There were colored pinnies, but the white ones were the most common. It is clear that white was the most common color. We are not sure about the actual colors given the black and white photography of the day, but they mostly look like muted colors. We suspect that there were not many bright colors, but that needs to be confirmed. There are paintings and we do not see bright colors. Most are light colors whuch can be confirmed from the photograophic record. We have seen a few dark-colored pennies, oprobably black or dark blue. This all seems up to mother's disgressions, but older girls may have had something to say about their pennies. There were also pattened pinnies. The patterns varies, but checks seem popular. We notice some images showing all or most of the girls wearing wearing white pinafores. There are, however, some images we hav archived which show quite a few girls wearing colored or patterned pennies.
