Victorian to 1920 boy's suit wanted

crinolinegirl

crinolinegirl

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Victorian to 1920 boy\'s suit wanted

Every year we go to the Edwardian day that they have at the tram museum in Crich:
http://www.tramway.co.uk

You get half price admission if you go in costume and well, me being an antique clothing dealer, works out quite well! :D
BUT the problem is Jake. When he was a baby it was easy, I just put him in christening gowns and I could always find toddler sized turn of the century outfits too for him.
Now that he's getting older and taller finding things isn't so easy anymore as boy's stuff is so hard to find!!

The event is soon, July 8 so I'm panicking as I don't have anything for him.
I'm looking for a summer weight outfit from the 1890's right to the 1920's (if it looks like it could pass for 1910's). I don't mind little sailor style suits or jacket & button on short sets as long as they look like they could pass for a "turn of the century" look and they are summer weight (no black wools).

Jake is 5 so he would have been "breeched" at this age so no boy's dresses. He's tall for his age but boney so smaller waisted stuff is ok as long as the length is there.

He is 46" tall (about 3'8"), Shoulders measure 12"- 12 1/2", Chest measures 22 1/2"- 23", Waist is 21", inseam is 18 1/2"- 19" (to his ankles), his inseam to his knee is approx. 8".

I'm desperate here so I will consider anything. For price I don't mind paying for older, wearable things but I don't want to pay over the odds as he's just going to outgrow it anyways. Don't mind if it needs fixing or if there is some damage either. Please help!

My email to send any pix to is: [email protected]

Thanks a bunch!:USETHUMBUP:

Lei
 
Forgot to say that I don't mind if it's a little big (just as long as it's not falling off him) as then he can wear it next year too:USETHUMBUP:

Lei
 
Hi Lei

Just thinking if you cannot find your first choose of outfit do you have a back up plan!
Because what I was thinking is that Jake looks like he is a live wire and maybe you could thing up a a Victorian character for him, The obvious example in the Victorian age would be a chimney sweep and dress accordingly , but that's just too obvious and will have been done before !Children were often used in mills as you know , and railway yards were traditionally a magnet for kids also .
There could be modern cloths that could be adapted like a white shirt , with different buttons and collar and made to look like not just out of packet and worn by a young lad, as he grows you could change individual item when require, and find him small accessories to go with.
Just a thought if you get desperate.
 
lei, I have a litte suit, not Edwardian but vintage and might do if you were desperate although I think it would only just fit. Its on my site in the NURSERY section. Let me know if it would be any good. Its blue, shorts and a jacket, lightweight, i think maybe linen or a linen weave.

kelly
 
Hi Kelly

I checked out the suit but I think the shorts will be too short on him. That's the problem, it's the length for everything.
I found two pairs of Edwardian boy's button trousers on Saturday from that big haul so if anyone has any odd Edwardian tops with the button holes that would fit him, I can get those to match the trousers.
If not, I'm watch two potential Ebay auctions which end this week so we shall see.

Lei
 
LOL, Paul- everyone who goes to this event dresses their kids as chimney sweeps. :D I wear my best 1910 slim silouette white dress with my widebrim feather hat and Gary wears his striped jacket and boater hat so Jake needs to match us in social status:P

Lei
 
so Jake needs to match us in social status:P

He can be a child that came up to panhandle from you.

Or you just met him when you encountered one of those "orphan trains" and just "picked him out" so to speak and are on your way home to make a proper gentleman out of him (though that would have happened in the US, not the UK.).
 
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