Figure 1.--Villy is seen here with his older brothers in 1902. He was about 3 years old at the time. He wears a collarless white dress with a pastel colored sash. I am not sure hat he is holding. Could it be flowers? Image courtesy of the MD collection.. |
The boys in this family appears to have worn dresses as little boys. We only have photographs of Villy wearing dresses, but we assume that the other boys also did so as well at the same age. We are not sure precisely when the boys were breached. We have photographs showing Villy wearing two types of dresses. One was a white dress. A portrait of Villy at about the same age in 1902 show him wearing a white dress without a collar, but with a pastel-colored sash. The sash looks white, but on close examinatiin appears to be a pastel color. We assume that in a family that the same general approach was followed when breaching the boys. So it must have been when they were about 3 years of age, but we are not sure just when. The only other dress depicted is a black or other dark colored velvet dress styled like a sailor suit.
The boys in this family appears to have worn dresses as little boys. We only have one boy actually pictured wearing dresses, but the other available photographs show the boys all wearing similar garments. So there is no reason to believe that all the the boys did not wear dresses when they were little.
Villy was the third brother. He was born about 1899. One photograph shows Villy at about age 3 wearing a white dress. In another image he wears a sailor dress. Villy is the only brother shown wearing a dress, but certainly all the boys did at the same age. It is unclear to HBC just when the boys were breached. A portrait of Viki at about age 3 also shows him wearing a kneepants suit. Most of the available portraits show him wearing sailor suits, often identical suits with the ones Viki wore. Unlike his two older brothers, I am not sure Villy entered military school. Villy might have avoided World War I, but was old enough to have been swept up into the final years of the War.
We are not sure precisely when the boys were breached. We assume that in a family that the same general approach was followed when breaching the boys. So it must have been when they were about 3 years of age, but we are not sure just when. Portraits of Villy at 4 wearing a sailor suit so the boys were apparently breached wwhen or before they turned 4 years of age. Of course such conventions were changing at the time. So the older boys may well have worn dresses longer, but we have no real evidence of this.
Figure 2.--Here Villy wears a velvet dress. It is styled like the sailor suits his older brothers wear. Image courtesy of the MD collection. |
We have photographs showing Villy wearing two types of dresses. One was a white dress.
A portrait of Villy at about the same age in 1902 show him wearing a white dress without a collar, but with a pastel-colored sash. The sash looks white, but on close examinatiin appears to be a pastel color.
The only other dress depicted is a black or other dark colored velvet dress styled like a sailor suit. It looks to be a velvet dress. It as worn by Villy in 1902. The dress is styled to match the knickers sailor suits that his older brothers were wearing.
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