Figure 1.--This European boy, probably photographed in the 1930s wears a white dickey, m but with a blue collar band.

The dickies were comonly blue, except for those worn with white sailor suits. There were, however, some white dickies with dark suits. I do not recall ever seeing a dark solid-colored dickie with a white suit. These dickies were commonly blue or black. Sailor suits were made in other colors such as grey. Thus the dickies were made in those colors to match the suit. We have not noted solid color dickies made in colors other than blue and white that did not match the suit. Given the many different styles of saolor suits, this is not impossible--but certainly was not very common. One variant of the solid colored dickey was a usually white dickey with a blue band at the neck.