Figure 1.--These American children are unidentified. The boys look to be about 4 years old. They wear white sailor tunics with blue trim. The portrait is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1910s. The portrait is colorized and not an actual color photograph, but the coloring looks accurate.

Sailor tunic suits came in several different colors. The most common was white. We also note white tunics with blue trim, including stripes. We also note quite a few blue tunics. The blue was done in various shades. The boy here is probably wearing a light-blue suit (figure 1). We also notice red whichh was also commonly used for detailing. There were also brown and grey suits. These colors were popular as play suits because they did not show the dirt as much as white suits. Other colors were less common. This is a difficult topic to research because the photographs were black and white. We have found some colorized portraits and some infirmation is available from catalogs.

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