Figure 1.--This school photograph came without any information. We would guess America or Germany. The reader sending the image writes, Germany is a possibility, but the site I found the image from was American. It was captioned, "5-year old is part of a class of eager kindergarteners dutring the 1920s" We first thought Germany, but button on styling and the sailor suits look more American and German. The black long stockings were common in America, but we see many younger voys wearing tan/flesh-colored long stockings. The informality of the classroom also looks more American than Germn to us. But we are just not sure.

The sailor suit was so popular throughout Europe that it is very difficult to identify what country many images are from. We will post some of the images, hoping that HBC readers will be able to notice small details that might help to identify the countru involved. Some of the larger countries are very eay to idetify, the smaller countries are virtually impossivle to identify unless there is information on the card identifiying it. This is complicated by the fact that the sailor suit except in Japan was not a common school mandated uniform. Boys and girls commonly wore sailor suits to school, but it was their own clothes, not a standardized uniform. Let us know if you can identify the country.

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This school photograph came without any information. We would guess America or Germany. The reader sending the image writes, Germany is a possibility, but the site I found the image from was American. It was captioned, "5-year old is part of a class of eager kindergarteners dutring the 1920s" We first thought Germany, but button on styling and the sailor suits look more American and German. The black long stockings were common in America, but we see many younger voys wearing tan/flesh-colored long stockings. The informality of the classroom also looks more American than Germn to us. But we are just not sure. Although after looking at it again, we think we see an American sleave rank badge.

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