Figure 1.--The moother of these boys obviously like sailor suits. The boys, however, all wear different styles. |
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Some parents dressed their children in exactly the same styles without variations. Other parents selected the same basic style, but allowed for minor variations reflecting the child's gender or age. The children might, for example, wear the same sailor blouses, but with pants or skirts, depending on the child's gender. Or the parents might have the same basic style and make varying degrees of alterations associate with age. Younger boys for example might wear a suit with a ruffled collar or large bow. There were also many ways in which sailor suits could be altered to reflect age differences. Some parents, we presume mostly mothers, give some thought to this. I'm not sure what it meant to the boys involved. And of course for some mothers any sailor suit would do. Coordinating sailor suits mean that the suits all probably had to be bought at the same time. And even trying to buy the suits at the same time, finding the same suit in the various sizes needed was not always possible. Otherwise it would be more difficult to find the precise same styles. This became a little more common after World War I when the variations in styles became less common.
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