Figure 1.--This is a small photo which has come out of an old Edwardian album which is dated 1908-09 and was titled ' Littlehampton '. This is a seaside resort and pleasure harbor. It lies on the English Channel in West Sussex. It looks to us like an inexpensive portrait taken on vacation. The unidebtified family includes a mother with a great hat and baby all bundled up. The boy looks to be about 10 years old and wears what looks like a prep school uniform. He wears a school cap, Eton collar. school blazer, and knickers.

Our information is still limited on school blazers in the 1900s. As far as we can tell the blazer in the 1900s was still primarily a sports garment worn at private schools. We have, however, found a few images of English schools at which the principal uniform was a blazer. Many preparatory schools at this time did not yet have a standard uniform, but mny did. And a few of those schools appear to have adopted a blazer for the uniform. Eton colars were still very common. So we even see some boys wearing blazers with Eton collars. This was not very common because as blzers were becoming more common after the 1900s, Eton collars were becoming less common. Our English school image archive for the 1900s is limited, but we have only found a few images of blazer uniforms at this time other than as sports uniforms.

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