Figure 1.--Here my brother and I are, playing in our matching sailor suits. This would have been about 1951 somewhere near Paris.

Sailor suits were not as popular as they once were, but many boys wore them. They were particularly popular for younger boys. I had several sailor suits, all with short pants. Sailor suits were also made with long pants, at least the ones for formal occassions like First Communion, but all of my sailor, at least the ones I can remember, had short pants. We have snapshots of matching sailor suits that my brother and I wore. We were fairly close in age and mother liked to dress us in matching outfits.