Figure 1.--The major accessories with sailor suits were dickies and scarves. They were not always worn, but they were very common. The brother and sister here are from Flensburg. The portrait looks to have been taken in the 1930s.
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Figure 1.--The major accessories with sailor suits were dickies and scarves. They were not always worn, but they were very common. The brother and sister here are from Flensburg. The portrait looks to have been taken in the 1930s. |
The accessories worn with saolor suits were .primarily associted with the middy blouses.
Middy blouses commonly came with dickies. These were attachments worn to cover up the area between the front "V" collar. The vickies varies, both the design and how they were attached to the collar. We wee dickies that were stripped, plain, and with embroidered designs. Most sailor suits came with detachable dickies. Some dickies buttoned on to the middy blouse. Others had tie on attachments. Some had both. Generally speaking the dickies were worn when the weather was cool, but taken off in warm weather. They were more likekly to be worn on special occassions, even during the summer. Here conventions variesd from family to family. Thus we photogrhs that show boys both wearing and not wearing the dickies with their sailor suits.
Neckwear Sailor neckwear worn by German boys is a relatively easy topic compared to many of the fashion topics that we address. This is because German practices were so uniform. Many German boys wearing sailor suits wore them with black scarves. Not all boys wore these scarves, especially in the summer, but they were very common. The approach was very different than in America. The scarves were normally tightly tied and held in place with black string. We see thousands of images of German boys with the vert same knot and white string. I assume this was common in Germany because it was how German sailors tied their scarves. It is very rare to see these scarves with casually tied bows. We have noted others neckwear, such as floppy bow, but they were relatively rate.
Less common, but probably most popular of all, at least with the boys, was a tin whistle.
The accessories worn with saolor suits were primarily associted with the middy blouses. Middy blouses commonly came with dickies. These were attachments worn to cover up the area between the front "V" collar. The vickies varies, both the design and how they were attached to the collar. We wee dickies that were stripped, plain, and with embroidered designs. Most sailor suits came with detachable dickies. Some dickies buttoned on to the middy blouse. Others had tie on attachments. Some had both. Generally speaking the dickies were worn when the weather was cool, but taken off in warm weather. They were more likekly to be worn on special occassions, even during the summer. Here conventions variesd from family to family. Thus we photographs that show boys both wearing and not wearing the dickies with their sailor suits.
Neckwear
Sailor neckwear worn by German boys is a relatively easy topic compared to many of the fashion topics that we address. This is because German practices were so uniform, at least by the 20th century. Many German boys wearing sailor suits wore them with black scarves. Not all boys wore these scarves, especially in the summer, but they were very common. The approach was very different than in America. The scarves were normally tightly tied and held in place with black string. We see thousands of images of German boys with the vert same knot and white string. I assume this was common in Germany because it was how German sailors tied their scarves. It is very rare to see these scarves with casually tied bows. We have noted others neckwear, such as floppy bow, but they were relatively rate.
Less common, but probably most popular of all, at least with the boys, was a tin whistle. In America the term was "tin whistle". his was because tin whiistles were very inexpensive and often included with a sailor suit. (A brass whistle would have been more expensive.) Thus commonly the whistles associated with sailor suits are called "tin whistles". I'm not sure if this was the same for Germany. A whistle in German is "Flöte" (kind of flute) or a "Pfeife". In this case it should be a
Pfeife. Tin is Zinn but I never ever heard Zinnpfeife before. I don't know if there
is a special name for this kind of Pfeife.
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