Figure 1.--This unidentified American boy ith his mother, probably about 1910, wears a traditionally styled sailor suit done in polkadot materail. He looks to be about 5 yeras old. These patterned sailor suits are rather rare in the photograohic record.

Now while flat material dominated for sailor suits and patterns were not very common, we have found a few examples of patterned suits, often with a doting mother present. The one exception was stripes. We have noted a number of striped suits. Here we see a checked pattern (figure 1). We also see examoles of polkadot suits. There may have been more varied patterns, but these are the two types of patterns that we have found so far. As our archive expands we suspect that we will find others, especially in the 19th century. We have not yet found patterned sailor suits from the 19th century, but suspect that there were some, and of course we do not know yet what the patterns may have been.

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