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A tunic suit is primarily made up of a tunic top and usually some kind of pants bottom. Note the Peter Pan collar and the below the knee pants which could be bloomer knickers that the boy on the previous page is wearing. The tunics could be done in many different ways. This included the collar treatment and buttoning arrangements. There were also differences in length and styling. The style of tunics may have been somewhat different than was common in America. HBC know less about tunic styles in Britain, especially Scotlnd. We note some differences here with the tunic suits the boys are wearing (figure 1). They are different than what we normally see American boys commonly wearing at the time. American and English boys commonly wote tunic suits which is clear from the photographic record. We are less sure about Scottish boys as the photographic rcord is much smaller. English and Scottish boys wore tunic suits with various kinds of pants, including pantalettes, knee pants, bloomer knickers, and long pants. We do not notice skirts in the photographic record. Motice that the boy here are wearing skirts with their tunics and not panys. In ct the skirts match the tinic and were clearly made to be worn with it. We are not sure how common this was, but we have archived sevral examples so it does not seem to have been rare or unusual.
A tunic suit is primarily made up of a tunic and some kind of pants. Some were three-piece suits done with vests. These garments were commonly, but not always matching garments, done in the same naterial and color. The matching garments can clearly be seen here (figure 1). Note the Peter Pan collar and the below the knee pants which could be bloomer knickers that the boy on the previous page is wearing. The tunics could be done in many different ways. This included the collar treatment and buttoning arrangements. There were also differences in length and styling. The style of tunics may have been somewhat different than was common in America. HBC know less about tunic styles in Britain, especially Scotlnd. We note some differences here with the tunic suits the boys are wearing (figure 1). They are different than what we normally see American boys commonly wearing at the time. American and English boys commonly wote tunic suits which is clear from the photographic record. We are less sure about Scottish boys as the photographic rcord is much smaller. English and Scottish boys wore tunic suits with various kinds of pants, including knee pants, bloomer knickers, and long pants. We do not notice skirts in the photographic record. Motice that the boy here are wearing skirts with their tunics and not panys. In ct the skirts match the tunic and were clearly made to be worn with it. We are not sure how common this was, but we have archived sevral examples so it does not seem to have been rare or unusual.
We notice a wide range of garments being worn with tunic suits, but not as part of the suit itself. They included headwear, blouses and collars, underwear imcluding pantalettes, and petticosts, hosiery, and footwear. Unlike the actual tumic suit they were not dome in tghe same material and color. This was becuse different weights and tyoes of mterial were used for these garments. An exception could be headwear. It might match the tujic suit, but mpore often it did not.
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