Figure 1.-- Here we have an unidentified family on a outing to the Budapest Botanical Gardens. They might have been there because its one of the location in the Paul Street Boys book. The boys look to be about 5-10 years old. All three boys wearing white sailor suits. The blouses look just like German suits with a tidy scarve and white cord. The fact that we have few other Hungarian images of boys wearing ailor suits probably reflects the fact that our archive is very limited, not that Hungarian boys did not commonly wear the suits. Notice that the boys still have cropped hair, a style common before World War I.

HBC is unsure at this time as to differences between Austria/Germany and Hungay as to the styling of the sailor suit Hungarian boys wore. The few sailor suits we have noted look rather like a Austrian/German suits. We see V-collars, stripes, and tidy tie and white cords. We notice one boy in 1911 on the previous page wearing an all-white knee pants sailor suit, even the neck scarve was white . This was a non-traditional suits, but we hace seen similar suits in Germany. Only his long stockings were not white. We do see Austrian boys living in Budapest and oyher large cities wearing sailor suits before World War I. We are less sure about Hungarian boys, but we suspect it was fairly common among middle-class boys in the cities. We are not sure about the era following the War. We do have a family portrait with all three boys wearing white sailor suits (figure 1). The blouses look just like German suits with a tidy scarve and white cord. The fact that we have few other Hungarian images of boys wearing sailor suits probably redlects the fact that our archive is very limited, not that Hungarian boys did not commonly wear the suits.

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