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Both boys and girls continued to dress firmally in the 1900s. Boys commonly wore suits and girls dresses. Inteestingly hosiety and footwear were similar, although boys more commonly went barefoot. Most everything else were similar. There were very significant differences between the clothes worn by boys and girls throughout the 19th century. Clothes were very strongly gender specific. The only substantial exception was younger, mostly pre-school, boys who might wear girls styles like dresses and other skirted garments. This began to change in the late-19th centuey, especially the 1890s as we see fewer boys wearing dresses and other girls' styles. It is not altogether clear what caused this change. We suspect tht the Fauntleroy Craze was involved. This centuries old traditions of little boys wearing girls' styles continued to declne in the 1900s, but had not yet disappeared. We do not yet see girl's wearing boys' syles like pants and shorts in the 1900s, but this trend would begin after World War I in the 1920s.
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