After the turn of the 20th century the fashion of dressing boys in dresses declined rapidly. We still see some boys wearing dresses, but only very young boys. A good example is the two boys here in a chiuch rectory in Boughton (figure 1). By the 1990s boys by age 4 or even 3 years were wearing kneepants. This varied from family to family. Boys that did wear dresses tended to wear plain ones, not the frilly ones their sisters might wear. This varies somewhat for boys from rich families.
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