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Normally we archive undated material in this general section for the decade. Here we have made an exception for the "Weldon's Boys' Wear" issue as we are farirly comfortable with our estimated date of 1922. We welcome comments by readers who may have some insights into dating the "Weldon's Boys' Wear" issue N°324. The catalog provides a very complete assessment of the different kinds and styles of outfits worn by boys in the year it was issued.
There are no separate headwear patterns offered. Many of the coats are shown as being worn with matching caps or hats, but the patterns do not always include instructions for making the headwear. The other garments are shown without headwear.
There were quite a few garments offered by Weldon's for younger boys. They included, smocks, rompers, tunic suits, and shorts sets. Sometimes the various different styles were grouped together. At other times they are interspersed with illustrations of outfits for older boys. Here we will archive the groupings of younger boys with the various fifferent garments and styles.
Here Weldon's offers a grouping of four outfits for younger boys, each with short pants. They include a cloth suit, a one-piece suit, a jumper (looking rather like a tunic), and a shorts set. The terminology is interesting. Jumper in Britain normally means sweater, here it describes a smock or tunic-like outfit. Knickers are used in thecsence of short trousers. The outfits shown are all for boys 1-6 years, except for the one-piece suit which only is for a boy to age 4 years. They are all shown as being worn with white socks and strap shoes.
Only one smock is depicted by Welson's, but one jumper and some of the yunics look rather like smocks.
Weldon's pictures quite a few different tunic suits in a variety of styles. For some reason they are not grouped togeher, but instead interspersed with garments worn bu older boys. Thus we do not have a single page with these tunic suits grouped together.
There is a tunic suit here for a boy 1-6 years old. Weldon's often grouped different kinds of garments together. Here a plain tunic suit with a square collar is show with two different coats.
We noticed only one romper outfit depicted, taking romper to mean puff-pants one-pice garments. There are some other one-piece garments with stright legs.
Sailor suits appeared to have been worn by English boys up to about 10 years of age. Older boys wore them in many European countries, especially in the 1920s. There were several different styles of sailor suits, but almost all English suits had basically traditional styling.
Two sailor suits were made in sizes from 2-10 years of age. The younger boy style (2-8 years) has a white middy blouse worn with colored shorts. The older boy style (4-10 years) has matching colored middy blouse and shorts. Of course as these were patterns, the mother could chose the material and the color.
The Weldon's publication illustrated a wide range of boys suits in many different styles for various age ranges.
Two short pants suits were offered for boys 6/8-14 years of age. Both were tweed suits worn with Eton collars. One was shown with a checkerd material, but this was up to the mother purchasing the pattern. The styling of both suits was quite similar. One had a belted back. There is also a serge suit for a younger boy included in this grouping.
Two short pants suits were offered for boys 4-6/10-12 years of age. Theywere described as clotyh and tweed suits. One was a three-piece suit. As is often the case, we are nor sure what were the characteristics of these suits that made one more suitable for younger boys and the other more suitable for a slightly older age range. One was shown being worn with an Eton collar and the other with a soft collar. The suit for the slightly younger boy was depicted with short socks while the slightly older boy wore kneesocks.
We note quite a few different styles of coats. Many are referred to as overcoats. Se are raglan coats, which seems insdestinguable from some of the overcoats. Some for younger children are just called coats.
Here two coats are pictured. One is for a raglan coat for boys 6-16 years. The other is just called a coat for a boy 4-10 years. It is worn with gaiters or leg protectors. Both coats have matching headwear which match the coat and the respective patterns are included. The headwear matches the coat and not the garment worn under the coat. The illustrations for other coats show caps, but patterns are not included.
Two more coats are pictured here. Both are described only as overcoats and are shown for boys 6-16 years of age. Both boys are shown weating long stockings, although not shown they were presumably wearing knickers (knickerbockers). Both coats have matching headwear which match the coat, but the respective patterns are not included. The headwear matches the coat and not the garment worn under the coat. With these two coat illistrations is one for a boy wearing a Russian tunic suit.
We do not see any sweaters shown. Apparently Weldon's did not handle knitting patterns, or at least did not offer them in this issue.
All of the outfits for boys offered by Weldon's have either short pants or to a lesser extent knickers (knickerbockers) for the older boys.
Weldon's did not provide knitting patterns for hosiery. The illustrations, however show older boys wearing kneesocks and to a lesser extent long stockings. The younger boys wear ankle socks, often white.
The Weldon's illustartions show boys wearing both high-top and oxford low-cut shoes. Many of rgw younger boys wear strap shoes.
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