Figure 1.--"Vrouw en Huis" offered patterns for boys and girls winter coats in 1952. Notice the more pronounced waistline on the girl's coat.
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Figure 1.--"Vrouw en Huis" offered patterns for boys and girls winter coats in 1952. Notice the more pronounced waistline on the girl's coat. |
The Belgian magazine Vrouw en Huis ("Woman and Home") was an important source of fashion information for Belgian and Dutch mothers. We have some issues from the early 1950s. It was a weekly magazine and as it was in Dutch for Flemish readers, was also sold in the Netherlands. I'm not sure how popular it was among French readers.
Vrouw en Huis offered pattern 7382 raglan coat for boys 7-8 years old. The Dutch text reads "raglanmantel voor jongens". Raglan is a coat style in which the the sleeve falls directly from the shoulders without an apparent yoke. "Mantel" means coat. Thus "raglanmantel" means raglan coat. "Voor jongens" means for boys. There are two front slant pockets with flaps. The coat was for 7-8 years old boys. The boys is shown wearing a rather British-looking peaked cap. He wears some kind of short pants outfit with stripped ankle socks and lace-up shoes. The boy wears gloves suggesting that the coat was for winter wear.
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