German Boys' Tunics: Chronology--1910s


Figure 1.--These Berlin children had their portrai taken in 1917. The little girl wears a white dress. Her big brother wears a square neck tunic suit with srtaight-leg knee pants. Both children wear white long stickings.

We continue to see nany German boys wearing tunic suits in the 1910s. The boys seem a little younger than in the 1900s, but we see quite a number of boys wearing tunics of various descriptions. More boys also seem to be wearing their tunic suits with straight-leg knee pants than in the 1900s when many boys wore bloomer knickers. The boy seen on the previous page wearing a tunic with a large Eton-style collar, was proably photographed around 1910. We think tunic suits were most popular before the War. We have noted, however, a variety of images taken during World War I showing boys wearing tunics. The styles and conventions seem very sililar to the 1900s. We think that they were much more popular during the early 1910s than the later war years. The boy here wears a square neck tunic during the Wat (figure 1). We are not sure about the age conventions, but the photographic record suggests they were primarily pre-school boys.








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