Figure 1.--Only two boys in this 1926 Belgian class wore sailor suits. We note that the styling was more traditional than had been the case in eralier years.

Two boy in a Belgian class in 1926 wore short pants sailor suits. Most of the boys in the class look about 13-14 years old. The other boys all wore short pants suits, only two boys wore sailior suits. They are very traditionally styled sailor suits. After the mid-1920s the non-traditionally styled sailor suits become less common. The boys increasingly wear sailor suits styled just like actual naval uniforms. One of the boys here has an embroidered dickey, a common faeture on eralier sailor suits. The other boy's suit appears complete with a lanyard and, we assume, a whiste. The sailor scarves are hard to make out. Both boys wear matching dark kneesocks. One boy has stripes at the top of his kneesocks, a style that we have not commonly noted in Belgium. One boy wears high-top shoes while the other boy, the younger of the two, wears sandals. Note that the boys in sailor suits have more standard haircuts than some of the other boys. We do not know what boys at the time thought of sailor suits, although we can speculate that because only two of these boys wear them that that they were not as populr as they one were, especially for younger teenagers.

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