English Sailor Suit Garments: Skirted Garments


Figure 1.--This CDV studio portrait shows an unidentified London boy, perhapd 3 years old. He holds aailboat. Notice the Arabic writing on the sette. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, sailor b;ouse, and white kilt-skirt. He wears a petticoat with it. The outfit is completed with white socks and highh-top shoes. The portraot is undated, but we suspect was taken in the 1870s. The studio was Elliott & Fry, London. The negative number was 137542 (somewhat indistict). The studio location here is identified, but even if it wasn't the fact the boy has bare legs rather than wearing long stockings clearly indicated that he is not American.

We notice English boys wearing a range of skirted sailor garments. They include sailor dresses and skirts, kilt suits, and tunics. Styling varied considerably, especially sailor dresses. Sailofr tunics also varied. This includes both tunic with "V"-front sailor styling as well as square cut blouses. These tunics were done in a range of styles. And there were dresses and skirts done with sailor styling for both younger boys and girls of all ages. We have some limited information on sailor dresses. Our acgive is limited, in pat because ur overall English archive is mich smaller than pur Amerocan archive. Thus we are just beginning to develop this topic.







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