Figure 1.-This unidentified Australian boy and his little sister was taken about 1910. He wears a white sailor suit, dark knee sicks, and hight-top shoes. She wears a white dress, pantalettes, white socks, and strap shoes. The studio was Moris in Fremantle.

We know virtually nothing about sailor suits in Australia at this time. Our Australian archive is still limited. The British princes began wearing sailor suits (1840s). This is about the time that that the British settlement of Australia began in a significant way. We are not sure when Australian boys began wearing sailor suits. We assume it was in the mid-19th century. We suspect that Australian boys wore sailor suits. Unfortunately we have virtually no Australian 19th century images. Thus we can not yet confirm that sailor suits were worn in the 19th century, but given the prevalence of British fashions it surely must havevbeen the case. Without a substantial Australian archive we can not assess prevalence. We do have a few 20th century images. And we note Australian boys wearing sailor suits in the early-20th century. The unidentified Queensland boy on the previous page here is a good example. The boy here is another example taken about the same time, perhaps a few years later (figure 1). After World War I in the 1920s, the popularity of sailor suits seems to have declined much as it did in Britain.

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