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We do not have enough images to establish any chronlogical timeline yet. Most of these images we have found so far, however, for some reason come from the early-20th century. We have a fairly large 19th century archive, but have not yet found examples of patterned sailor suits. We see that as a very good indicator that patterned sailorsuits were not very common, but that does not mean that none existed. We have found a few patterned suits in the 1910s and early-1920s. The boy here looks to have been photographed in the 1910s (figure 1). The boy on the previous page was probbky ohotograohed in the 1920s. While we have found afew examplswith patterns, the vast majority of suits were made with flat material. We suspect that most of the patterned sits were the result of home sewing. We believe thtreadt nade suits in npattens were rare. By the 30s we no no longer see examples, but by this time, the sailor suit was declining in popularity.
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