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We have been unable to find many German catalogs from the 1880s. We do not know how common they were ot even what companies were involved. We suspect that store catalogs were the most common. We do not know if Germany in the 1880s had mail order catalogs like Sears and Wards in America. I think mail order catalogs were largely an American invention. Germans were more likely to live close to towns and cities with stores. We have found a few individual items, but know little about the catalogs. The illustrations we have found seem nore detailed than the illustrations in American mail order catalogs, but comparable to some store catalogs.
We have only one item for 1883. It looks to be knee pants for a liitle boys' suit. All we know about these knee pants, a German catalog item, is that they appeared in a 1883 catalog. We will know more when we get the caption translated. It looks like the pants to a juvenile suit. Notice the boddice. This is a very helpful image as bodices do not show up in photographic portraits. They seem to have been, however, commonly used for children clothes. Without this image we might have guessed that the suit was a button-on outfit.
Night shirts were still worn to bed in the 1880s by both adults and children. We note two styles of night shirts for boys offered in an unidentified German catalog during 1889. The major difference was the collar. One was brightly embroidered. Both had fancy fronts. As far as we know, pajamas were not yet worn in Germany.
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