Figure 1.-- Here we see an unidentified mother with her three children. The portrait is not dated, but the clothes and mount looks like the 1890s. The boys look to be about 3-10 years old. We see the three boys wearing outfits that were age approporiate for the three ages of the boys. The studio wad Percy Parsons in Worcester.

Here we see an unidentified mother with her three children. The portrait is not dated, but the clothes and mount looks like the 1890s. The boys look to be about 3-10 years old. We see the three boys wearing outfits that were age approporiate for the three ages of the boys. The younger boy who looks to be 3-4 years old wear a white or light-colored kilt suit with a large collar giving it a kind of sailor look. The kilt skirt has box pleats and a band of stripes near the bottom hem. The middle brother wears a front-buttoning sailor suit with knee pants. By the 1890s British boys were beginning to stop wearing sailor suits at an earlier age than continental boys. This boy looks to be about 6 years old. Their older brother who looks to be 10 years old or so wears a suit with an Eton collar and knicker pants. Eton collars were popular at the time. This boys has a rather miderately sized one. We can't tell what kind of jacket he is wearing, perhaps a collar-buttoning jacket. All three boys wear dark long stockings and lace-up high-top shoes.

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