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These patterned sailor suits are mostly worn by younger boys. We have only a few examples, so we can not yet create a difinitive age range. It looks to us, however, like the images are all pre-school boys. Of couese this is an estimate. Most of these images do not specify the ages of the boys. We think that 6 year olds (1st grade) are a definite possibilitym but not much older boys. We suspect this was because older boys wanted their sailor suits to look like actual naval uniforms. They would not have been too impressed with checks and especially polkadots. Looking like sailors was much more appealing. And by 1st grade, boys either knew or would soon learn that real sailors did not wear polkadots. We do subsequentky notice girls with sailor dresses that were done in all sorts of patterns, including polkadots and plaid. Here there was no objections.
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