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A suit is a set of clothing intended to be worn together. Normally suit garments are made of the same material, but this varied over time. We see a lot of early 19th cntury suits in which the jacket and pants did not match. A good example is an artistocratic boy in 1802.
After the mid-19th century the cnvention of matched garments became more established. The basic suit garments were the jacket or coat and trousers. While this was the basic compnents of the suit, they were of course done in many different styles. There were also three-piece suits. The three-piece suits came with vests (waistcoats). The vests were normally made of the same material as the jacket and trousers, but some 19th century vests were made to contrast with the rest of the suit. There were also suits with matching caps, but this was much less common. We do not know of any destinctive Danish suit styles. The suits we have noted seem very similar to English styles.
A suit is a set of clothing intended to be worn together. Normally suit garments are made of the same material, but this varied over time. We see a lot of early 19th cntury suits in which the jacket and pants did not match. After the mid-19th century the convention of matched garments became more established. The basic suit garments were the jacket or coat and trousers. While this was the basic compnents of the suit, they were of course done in many different styles. There were also three-piece suits. The three-piece suits came with vests (waistcoats). The vests were normally made of the same material as the jacket and trousers, but some 19th century vests were made to contrast with the rest of the suit.
The suits that Danish boys wear are basically the same syles as the he ones worn by other European boys, especially German boys. We do not know of any distintive Danish suit styles. Denmark is a very small country in both area and populatiom. Clohing styles there were strongly inluenced by the huge German fashion industry an market to the South. The British Crown Prince, the future Edward VII, married Danish Princess Alexandria (1863). This creatred links that also affected Danish fashions. We do not have a lot of 19th century information, but we see skeleton suits at the start of the century. Long pants suits were standard in the first hald of the century. By mid-century we begin to see sailor suits and cut away jackets. We note collar-buttoning jackets and lapel sack suits. Long pants suits continued to be standard, but gradually shortened-length pants began to becone more important and by the end of the century many boys were wearing knee pants suits. We have more information on the 20th century. Sack suits became standard, especially single-breasted jckets, but we also see double breasted jackets. Short pants suits became common after Workd war I in the 1920s. This continued to be the case until after World War in in the 1960s. At the same time, there was a steast shift fior informality in dress, part of a general European trend. And at the same time a general uropean fashion was developing. Before sorkld War II, there were observable differences in how boys in major countries dressed in different countries. Today there is little difference.
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