Figure 1.--Here we see an American boy from the 1930s wearing a stripped Peter Pan collar with an unusual matching tie. We wonder if this could be some kind of school uniform. The boy looks to be wearing an Eton suit.
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Figure 1.--Here we see an American boy from the 1930s wearing a stripped Peter Pan collar with an unusual matching tie. We wonder if this could be some kind of school uniform. The boy looks to be wearing an Eton suit. |
Almost always Peter Pan collars were solid colors. As explained above the color was usually, but not always white. While solid colors were by far the prevalent convention for Peter Pan collars, we have seen some done in patterns, including stripes nd polkadots. Such patterns , however, were not very common and we have very few photographs showing boys wearing Peter Pan collars with these patterns. Here we see an image from the 1930s with a boy wearing a stripped Peter Pan collar (figure). Note the unusual matching gies. Most images we have seen show boys wearing Peter Pan collars without ties. Nor do we have much information over chronology and convention. We note boys wearing these collars on blouses. They were commonly worn with Eton suits.
A HBC reader tells us, "Here is an image of an American schoolboy from the 1930s. I found it in an antique shop. It looks to me as though it had originally been part of a poster and then cut out by someone to eliminate the
context and get rid of the surrounding text. The date written on the back is
simply "1930s" but I am guessing about 1934 or 1935. The boy is rather formally dressed, but we know that he is a schoolboy because of the open notebook and pencil he is holding. He wears a striped Peter Pan collar with a matching striped tie, but apparently the collar is attached because his shirt cuffs and shirt front are of the same material as the collar. I would guess that he is wearing a short pants suit with knee socks although this is obviously just a guess. He might be wearing tan long stockings, but I think knee socks would be more usual. I don't think this kind of collar and tie were normally worn with knicker suits. The suit seems to be of gray flannel. The formality of the boy's dress leads me to suppose that he is either wearing a private school uniform or is dressed like a young gentleman in a way required by the rules of his private school. I don't think boys from public schools in the 1930s were normally this fashionable in their school clothes. The boy
looks to me to be about a 3rd-grader, perhaps 8 or 9. I would guess that he
comes from one of the north-eastern states--Pennsylvania, New York, or New
England. You may have a better estimate of the age and date than I have." The age and date estimate sound reasonble to HBC. We are not quite sure about this image. Is seems to us almost as if the stripes were drawn on. Our readers, however, believes tht this was indeed a stripped shirt. "I doubt that the stripes are drawn on. Note that the entire shirt is striped, including the cuffs, the
shirt front, and the collar."
Almost always Peter Pan collars were solid colors. As explained above the color was usually, but not always white.
While solid colors were by far the prevalent convention for Peter Pan collars, we have seen some done in patterns, including stripes and polkadots.
Such patterns , however, were not very common and we have very few photographs showing boys wearing Peter Pan collars with these patterns. Here we see an image from the 1930s with a boy wearing a stripped Peter Pan collar (figure). Note the unusual matching gies. Most images we have seen show boys wearing Peter Pan collars without ties.
We have so few images of Peter Pan collars with patterns that we can not yet develop a chronology. The image here is dated to the 1930s.
Nor do we have much information over chronology and convention. We note boys wearing these collars on blouses. They were commonly worn with Eton suits.
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