Figure 1.-- This unidentified Ameriican boy wears a sailor suit, we think un the 18790s. Notice that the V-front sailor collar is not yet developed. He looks to be about 7 years old. The CDV portrait has no studio identification. |
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The sailor suit seems to have been a style for relatively young boys rather than a generalized boy's style. Most of the boys wearing sailor suits during the 1870s tended to be about 3-8 years old. Younger boys wore varied clothing. And with older boys, sailor suits were primarily wrn by boys from fashionable city families. We see a few boys as old as about 10 years wearing sailor suits, but rarely older boys. This would be the pre-school boys and the early primary years. We are, however, still assessing the age trends and hope to eventually have a more precise age assssment. Catalogs often provide age size indicators. We do not have, howevr, as much catalog information from the 1870s as we do for subsequent decades. So our age assesments or primarily estimates come from the prevalence in the available photographic record.
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