Swiss Sailor Suits: Skirted OutfitsChronology


Figure 1.--Sailor outfits were made in various skirted versions for younger boys. There were several different types of skirted sailor garments. This Swiss boy in 1901 wears a sailor-styled dress. Notice his Wonderful pinto pony on wheels. The photographer was Muller-Kirchhoffer, Zurich.

Sailor outfits were made in various skirted versions for younger boys. There were several different types of skirted sailor garments. We note sailor dresses, sailor kilt suits. and sailor tunics. Some of these outfits are not easy to identify. Saolor dresses, for example, might be made to look like sailor kilt suits. Sailor blouses might also be worn with skirts lppking rather like kilt suits. We do not have enough Swiss images, however, to know just how popular these various garmemts were over time. Nor do we know much about styling. We suspect in Zurich with a largely German-speaking population that trends and styles were similar to those in Germany.






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