Figure 1.--These children photographed in 1914 were ethnic Germans livving in Bulgaria. They are 2-4 years old. Their mames are Vladimir Graneisek Adolf Werych and Vera Vlasta Josefa Werychova. I am not sure why theur last names are different. Under Vera's name we see Stare Zagoie u Buffars?? Click on the image to check on the spelling. The mount style is similar tio what we find in America.

In our small Bulgarian archive we find few examples of boys wearung skirted garments. We notice mostly dresses and tunics. Bulgaria was not librated from the Ottoman Turks until the late-19th century. And this is when we first begin to see Wesrern dress to any extent. A problem here is that the Ottoman Empire was very backward, especially in terms of technology. Photography was one of the many technologicalm areas where the Ottomans lagged behind. As a result we have very little photographic evidence until Bulgaria became a defacto independent country (1878). But most of the early images we have found come from the early-20th century. And by that time the centuries old comvention of younger boys wearing skirted garmebnts had largely passed, although the tunic was a popular garment for boys (1900-20). As far as we can tell, however, in Bulgaria this was a style only worn by relatively well to do Buklgarian boys from families that could aford fashionable clothes. While we have found some images, but only of the dressy tunuic suits. We do not see any Bulgarian boys wearing the play tunics that were also popular in America at the time. After World War I in the 1920s we no longer see tunics. The boy on the main Bulgarian page wears a mix of items. He wears a tunic with a lace collar and pantalettes. Also notable is his long waved hair and a large hair bow. Here we see a boy weith his mother. He wears a long, jacketed sailor dress with close-cropped hair about 1900 (figure 1). We see a few boys wearing dresses even after World War I in the inter-War era, but not very many.

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