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Family portrait provide useful insights as to how the entire family dressed. Many JBC images are of a single noy. It is interesting to see how boys of different ages, sisters, and parents dressed so we know what fashions were worn at the same time and how trends fluctuated over time. . It is interesting to see in India how Western abnd traditional clothing was mixed. Here we will include images of the entire family as well as just the children of the family. In our small sampeling we notice quite a few large families.
This Cabinet Card is an image of an Indian family posing for their portrait. Unfortunately we do not know where it was taken. The photo is also undated. We would guess thsat it was taken in the 1890s, but as the family wears traditional clothing, this is very difficiult to assess. Perhaps our Indian reader will have a better insight as to the date. The family looks like an affluent one. We can see many differences between the children in the photo. A boy wear jacket and long trousers (and he is also the only shod in the photo). We would guess that he attends an English school, probably the only child in the family to do so. Another boy wears only the lungi.
This pprtrait was taken in Tamil Nadu State (southern India) in 1941 (figure 1). It shows a middle class family. The children wear western style clothing, but they are barefoot. There parents wear traditional clothes. This was very common at the time. I am not sure why this was. Perhaps the Western clothing was more practical. Or perhaps the children worn Western style school uniforms. The older daughter, however, wears traditional dress.
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