Figure 1.--These children look to be peasant boys and girls. Thet were ptobably wearing there best clothes. Notice the boys wearing Russian blouses. This is an actual color photograph from the 1900s. Click on the image for the full picture.
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Figure 1.--These children look to be peasant boys and girls. Thet were ptobably wearing there best clothes. Notice the boys wearing Russian blouses. This is an actual color photograph from the 1900s. Click on the image for the full picture. |
Little boys continued to wear dresses after the turn of the Century, but this fashion was passing and for the most part relatively young boys wore dresses. Sailor suits were popular for boys. The
Czarevitch Alexis almost always wore sailor suits, until World War I began (1914). Then he mostly wore army uniforms. Many other arristocratic and wealthy boys, as well as
middle class boys, also wore sailor suits, but this was a realtively small part of the population. The sailor suit was probably a reflection of the German influence. More common for most Russian boys were loose fitting Russian blouses with closed collars. This style also became popular in Germany and other European countries, but there the open square collared Russian blouse was more common. School age boys sometimes had their hair shaved as in Germany. Many boys went barefoot.
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