Figure 1.--This CDV portriat is undated. We suspct it was taken in the early-or mid-1870s. The studio was Oglesby in Llandudno, North Wales. The back includes the claim that the studio was the photograoher od the Queen and Emperor of the French. This helps date the image, to the period after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) when French Emperor Napoleon III sought refuge in Britain.

We notice Welsh boys wearing saiklor suits like those worn by English boys. We do not have a lot of images, but those we have found seen similar to what we see English boys wearing at comparable periods. The earliest Wlsh portrait we have found looks to date from the 1860s. The extent the sailkor suit was worn erarlier we do not know. Thie similarity of the sailor suits worn by Welsh an English boys would seem likely as the basic inspiraion was the same British Royal Navy. We note both traditionally styled sailor suits as well as more imaginaitevely syled suits.

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