Swedish Boys' Garments: Suits


Figure 1.--These two unidentified Swedish brothers had their portraits taken about 1905. (A 1902 award is montioned on the back of the card.) The younger boy wears a Norfolk suit. His older brother wears a sack suit. Note how small the lapels were. They had a great St. Bernard dog. The photographer was A. Larsson in Upsala.

As far as we can tell, Swedish boys wore suits that fllowed trends in other European countries. Unfortunately we cannot yet make a real assessment at this time is limited because our Swedish archive is still quite limited. We seemany boys wearing Norgolk suits in the early 20th century as was the case in many European countries. Here Scandanavian countrues (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) all had very similar suit and othe fashion trends. Here German fashions were especially influential. Many Swedish boys wore sailor suits as in the rest of Scandinavia, but perhaps not as common as in Denmark. The time line for sailor suits and other suit styles seems generally comparable throughout Scandanavia.








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