Figure 1.--This cabinet card shows two Macon, Georgia brothers ese two broyjers who look to be about 10-14 years old. Th older boy wears a knee pants doublr-brested suit. His cyounger btotherwears a sailorv jacket suit also with knee pants. Both boys wear long stockings. Note that even in the South, long stokings were common. The studio was Woodall in Macon.

The traditional suits had become increaingly popular in America by the end of the decade. We still see non-traditional suits, but styling was beginiining to become increasingly standardized. The style of the suit and the name basically comes from the top. We see two basic types of sailor suit jackets. We not only the blouse suits which are probanly what is in the popular mind. There were were also a jacket suit. Blouses were often done with front buttons rather than pullover styling. Thev blouse might be worn with some kind of undershort, but suring the simmer the boy might just wer the blouse. The jacket sailor suits seem most common in the 1890s. They were more of a dressy outfit.The jackets were styled variously. Unlike the blouse suits, they had no reltionship to the unforms worn by sailors. Some were made to be worn open. They were worn with shirt waists or other kind of shirt;-like garmrnts. Some were done with double button styling and called reefer suits, the same named used for heavy coats. And some had vests which were common with regular suits as well. An example is the Wards 1895 catalog.

Other Related HBC Pages:
[Sailor suits] [Kilts] [Smocks] [Pinafores] [Sailor Hats] [Blouses]
[Ring Bearers] [Long hair] [Ringlet curls] [Hair bows] [Bangs] [Collars] [Bows]
[American mail order catalogs]

Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Introduction] [Activities] [Biographies] [Chronology] [Clothing styles] [Countries]
[Bibliographies] [Contributions] [FAQs] [Glossaries] [Images] [Links] [Registration] [Tools]
[Boys' Clothing Home]

Created: 11:48 PM 8/18/2017
Last updated: 11:48 PM 8/18/2017