Figure 1.--This unidentified patrician boy from Massachusettes looks to be about 16 years old. He was proabably painted in the 1830s.
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Figure 1.--This unidentified patrician boy from Massachusettes looks to be about 16 years old. He was proabably painted in the 1830s. |
We have very limited information on American boys clothing during the early 19th century. There were few magazines or newspapers with advertisements or illustrations. Photography was not yet invented which severly limits the number of portraits. We have some paintings, but they often are not dated. Most are by primitive. Naive artists with varying attention to details such as clothing. While our information is limited, we are attempting to gather information and images if boys clothing in the eraly decades of the 19th century. For the most part, refined American families would have followed European styles. In the backwoods, more practical considerations governed clothing.
We note boys wearing low cut dresses much like their sisters. A good example was the Ross children. Here we see a boy wearing a suit (figure 1).
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