German Boys' Garments: Collar Types--Peter Pan Collars


Figure 1.--Here we see a German boy, probably in the 1930s, wearing a Peter Pan collar. We are not sure if it was part of his blouse.

HBC has little information on Germany, but believes that the Peter Pan collar was also a popular in Germany as elsewhere in Europe, but perhaps somewhat less so than France. We do not know what it was called in Germany. A German reader tells us that she has never seen a German term for these collars. We have seen younger German boys wearing Peter Pan collars in the photographic record. They do not seem to be as common as in some other countries. Curiously, it may have been more common in Germany than in England as we do not see many boys English boys wearing Peter Pan collars aboove approximately age 8 years. We have found a few examples, esoecially with younger boys. One example is Paul Clemens in 1935. This seems to have been a more popular with well-to-do than woking-class families. We see an advertisements from Bleyle, an important manufacturer, offering fashionable outfits with Peter Pan collars in 1939. After World War as in other countries, Peter Pan collars in Germany became more of a girls' style or used for very young boys.






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