Sailor Suits Detailing: Plain Suits


Figure 1.--Here we see a German boy in the 1920s wearing a rather elegant, plain sailor suit. I'm not sure what color it was. It would have been a Summer suit. He wears a middy blouse which seems to button at the side. He wears it with long black stockings.

Many variations appeared to the classic sailor suit detailing. Some otherwise clasically style suits had no stripes at all and are dine with a very plain look. Stripes were of course the most common type of detailing. For a time it was considered quite stylish to have the sailor collar without stripes but an otherwise classically styled suit. This might be done as solid color suits or sometimes contrasting solid white collars were done on colored suits or solid colored collars on white suits. Themost commob color was of course various shafes of blue. Sailor suits were of course done in many other colors as well. These plain suits often have a rather elegant look. We have noted these plain suits in America as well as several other countries. Not all plain looking suits are really plain. Sometimes the stripes on blue suits were done in different shade of blue or in black rather than white and are hard to detect in the old photographs. They look suits done with plasin collars unless you look very carefully.







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