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We see very few English teenagers wearing sailor suits. We see this on the Contnent. In fact it was fairly common for younger teenagers to wear sailor suits in France, Germany, Italy, and other countries. America was closer to the English conventions. We believe we see few English teens wearing sailor suits because this was the age that boys entered public (private secondary boarding) schools. The schools had uniforms and the boys looked on sailor suits as juvenile attire. Mist stopped wearing sailor suits when they entered their prep schools at about 8 yers of age. This of course did nit orevent working-class boys from wearing sailor suoits, but in the 19th century it was the affluent classes that set fashion trends, both for children abd adults. We do see Prince George (the future George V) wearing aailor suit, but this was at a time that the age conventions were just forming and age ranges at private schools were just beginning to become syandardized. We also have the complication that Prince George and his older brother were sent to join the cadet training ship HMS Britannia when George was 12 years old (1877).
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