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Sailor suits were especially popular with the middle class. Upper-class boys also wore them, including aristocracy. The relly large number of boys that wore them, however, was middle-class boys. We are not entirely sure why this was. I suspect that it was with the middle-class that nationalism was strongest. the German Navy became associated with the prestige and stability of Imperial Germany. And this did not change after the War and the demise of the Empire. Perhaps this is a reflection of the middle class's longing for social stability, an attiude not shared by the working class. Or perhaps it was the strong socialist sentiment among the working class.A HBC reader has provided us a remarkable series of photographs showing how Herbert and Kurt Hender were dressed at different ages in the 1920s. Their mother clearly liked sailor suits, although they were not always dressed in them. We note an unidentified German boy wearing a sailor suit in the 1920s. It is a good example of how entrenched the sailor suit had become with the German middle class.
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