Figure 1.--Here we see a young American family in we ghink grandmother's living room in 1968. The younger boy wears a plaid Eton jacket. We can't see his short pants, but they are probably grey or navy blue. Given mother's attention to detail, notice the brown knee socks, they may have been brown, but grey and navy were the most popular colors. The older boy had a plaid jacket as well (notice the portrait on the mantel), but is not wearing it here. It was blue-colored plaid, matching his blue slacks.

Jackets for Eton suits were fairly standard. Lapels were the major variation on most suits. Without lapels there was not that much that could be varied. The major characteristic with a jacket with no lapels was the length of the jacket. There was some difference in the area near the collar. There wee also differences in the pockets. The jackets were cut shorter than regular suit jackets. Some early Eton suits have rather normal sized jackets, but by the 1930s the smaller jackets had become fairly standard. A good example is the jackets worn by the Tucker boys in 1937. Of course as the jackets were for younger boys, a shorter cut was in keeping with the age of the boys. There were some differences in the color. We see some light-colored even white suits. These seem the most common in the 1920s-30s. Most of the suits we have noted were dark colors, mstly navy blue, black, and drey. These suits were done with identical colored short pants. In the 1960s we begin to see plaid and striped jackets. They were popular through the 1970s. the plaid jackets were normally worn with plain navy or grey shorts. The patterns were normally just for the jackets.

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