Figure 1.--Here we see a Welsh boy from Cardif. The boy is unidentified, but looks to be about 4 years old. The portrait was undated, but we would guess was taken about 1905-10. He wears a tunic suit which was popular at the time. I'm not sure how it was referred to in Britain.) Notice the pin on lace collar mother has added. He is photographed with a wonderful toy train which I assume was a studio prop. (It seems a bit large to lug around to the studio for the portrait.) The train looks big enough that the boy could sit on when playing. Image courtesy of the MC collection.

Our Welsh garment section at this time is very limited. The items that we have found confirm our initial assessment that Welsh boy by the 19th century commonly wore essentially the same garments as worn by English boys of comparble social class. We would be interested in any insights that our Welsh readers may be able to offer. We do not have very many Welsh images, but will add the ones we find here. Here we see a Welsh boy from Cardif. The portrait was undated, but we would guess was taken about 1905-10. He wears a tunic suit which was popular at the time (figure 1). I'm not sure how it was referred to in Britain.) Notice the pin on lace collar mother has added. We do note a photograph of boys wearing Highland kilts. We thought it ws Scottish, but it could be Welsh. We're not sure to what extent Welsh boys wore kilts. The kilt is often seen as a kind of Celtic garment rather than just Scottish.

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