Figure 1.--This German mother is pictured with her two boys in 1927. She has outfitted them in identical white summer sailor suits. |
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The popularity of the sailor suit declined somewhat in Germany after World War I. The same occurred in other countries as it did in other countries. Even so sailor suits continued to be very popular in the 1920s. This was also the case in many other countries as well, but the sailor suit during the 20s seems more popular in Germny than in any other country. We are not sure why this was. Even younger teenagers wore sailor suits during the 1920s. The military had been a revered institution in Germany before World I. This changed with the tragedy of the War. Even so, the sailor suit as a fashion for boys continued to be very popular. For some reason the horror of the War did not transfer to the sailor suit. We are not entirely sure why. In school portraits we normally see some of the boys and not uncommonly several wearing sailor suits. Some mothers dressed all the boys of appropriate ages in sailor suits and sometimes their sisters as well. We see this very commonly in the photographic record. We know that the sailor suit was popular wuth parents. We are less sure about what the boys thought of it. We rather suspect that the boys rather liked them, but can not yet confirm this.
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