Figure 1.-- This CDV portrait shows a boy with a hat and a girl posing on the chair. They both have ruffled collars. The photographer was August Thiry in Fulnek. |
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The Austro-Hungarian Empire was formed after Austria's defeat in the Austro-Prussian War (1866). For the Czechs this did not make a major difference as they had been goverened by the Austrian Hapsburgs for several centuries. We note CDV portraits of Czech boys in the 1860s, at least children from Czech cities. The fashions seem very similar to those worn by Austrian children. The photographs are mostly of city children. Children in the country probably wore mostly folk clothing. I'm not sue how comonly that was recorded by photographers at the time. We see a variety of jackets. Younger boys might wear longish knee pants, often with white stockings. We also note note boys wearing tunics with bloomer knickers. Similar fashions were worn throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire in urban areas.
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