* Italian boys clothes family families Chillotti Family Sardinia








Chillotti Family (Sardinia, 1914)


Figure 1.--Here we see the Chillotti family in 1914. They lived in Ulassai a mountain village in Sardinia. The parents wear the traditional clothing. Nowadays these clothing are worn only in folk festivals, but then were still worn in daily life, especially in little villages.

Here we see the Chillotti family in 1914. They lived in Ulassai a mountain village in Sardinia. The parents wear the traditional clothing. Nowadays these clothing are worn only in folk festivals, but then were still worn in daily life, especially in little villages. Probably this is a shepherd family. In that time Sardinian shepherd children go often barefoot in summer, saving footwear for cold mountain winter (instead fisher children go often barefoot all year round). However the barefoot younger boy in the family portrait can mean that he doesn't own any footwear. They can be also an illustration of the affirmation on the Italian barefoot page that 'a child went barefoot to school or to church or for a formal portarit only if he did not have shoes and was thus forced to go barefoot'. The photograph here is interesting for several reasons. Note that the boys wear non-descript suits and not folk costume like their parents. The suits are the old fashioned kind that button at the collar without lapels. In modern Italy, children wearing comtemprary clothes are more likely to dress the children up in folk costumes. Also note that the boys wear ong pants. At the times, kneepants were very common for boys in Italy. There were social class factors here. Boys from working-class and rural families were more likely to wear long pants. A factor here was that they often wore clothes cut down from their father or older brothers.







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