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German Brothers (1880s)

German boys velvet suits
Figure 1.--Here is a studio portrit of three boys, certainly brothers, from Karlsruhe, Germany. The portrait is undated, but looks to have been taken in the 1880s. The boys are dressed in identical velvet suits, except for the collars. The younger boys wear lace collars. The older boys has a plain hite collar looking somewhat similar to an Eton collar. Image courtesy of the BP Collection.

Here is a studio portrit of three boys, certainly brothers, from Karlsruhe, Germany. The boys names are Fritz, Heinrich and Adolf. Unfortunately we do not havetheir family name. The portrait is undated, but looks to have been taken in the 1880s. The boys are dressed in virtually identical velvet suits. There are only two differences. The older boy looks to have a double-breasdted suit. The younger boys wear single breasted suits. Also the collars are different. The younger boys wear lace collars. The older boys has a plain white collar looking somewhat similar to an Eton collar. The different collars are an obvuius example of age grrading. Lace collars wre seen as more appropriate for younger boys. I'm not sure if the double-breasted suit also had age cnnotations. Also notice the hair styles. Note the long-length of the knee paants. This was common in the 1880s, although the younger boy seems to have slightly shorter knee pants. Here all three boys have identically styles hair. Long hair like this was not common among German boys t the time, but it was not unknown. A German reader writes, "I guess the longish hair may have been something of the more well-to-do circles. Youbare correct that you don't see it very often in these old portraits. But it is certainly not the only portrait I have seen with longish hair."







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Created: 8:06 PM 8/24/2006
Last updated: 4:56 AM 8/25/2006