Russian School Uniform Garments: Sailor Suits


Figure 1.--All we know about these boys is that they were photographed in Moscow during 1953. It does not seen to be a family snapshot. The boys are clearly not brothers. We think the boys may go to a pre-school that had a sailor suit uniform. We are not sure hiw else to explain the identical sailor suits. Click on the image for a fuller discussion.

The Tsarist and Soviet school uniforms were a peaked military cap worn wuth jackets that either had an army or cadet look or a blue suit jacket. We see a few images of boys wearing sailor suits. Some boys did wear individual sailor suits, especially in the early-20th century both before and after the Revolution. School uniform rules were not strict or even non-existent fir children in the early -Soviet period. When several boys are wearing the same style sailor suits, this suggests a school uniform. Sailor suit uniforms do not seem very common, but we see a few examples that do look like school uniforms to us. Unfortunately we are nor sure just what the sailor suits reresented. For younger boys we believe they may have been pre-school that incouraged the boys to wear sailor suits or a cadet school that an actual sailor suit uniform. We believe that there also may have been a naval cadet school.









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