Figure 1.--This boy we think in the 1930s wears a stried short pants sailor suit. It almost certainly was blue and white. Th boy lokks about 11 years old. |
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Short pants became increasingly common in the 1910s, and by the mid-1920s had replaced largely replaced kneepants as the most common type of pants worn by boys with sailor suits. Long pants were also worn, especilly by older boys, but short pants appear more common in the 1920s and 30s. Short pants sailor suits were commonly worn with kneesocks, but we also note many boys wearing long stockings especisally during the winter. School class photos normally show some boys wearing sailor suits, usually with short pants. The unidentified boy here wearing a striped suit is a good example (figure 1). By the 1930s sailor suits were declining in popularity, especially after 1933 when the NAZIs seized power. Some younger boys still wore them, but it became less common to see boys older than 10-11 wearing sailor suits in Germany after about 1935. Boys entered the Hitler Youth at age 10. Short pants sailor suits had social class connotations. After World war I they were most common with middle-class boys and less common for working-class boys. We see these striped suits being worn during the 1920s and 30s. This boy wears knee socks. This was probably most common because the striped suits were summer suits, but we lso see boys wearing long stockings. A good example is another unidentified boy, probably in the late 1920s.
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