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We notice boys wearing a wide range of different dress styles. As far as we can tell the dress styles worn by boys and girls were essentially the same. We do not yet have a lot of specific stylist details. We note a simple, but boldy decorated dress worn by Gordon Bently in 1879. We note an Indiana boy wearing a very plain dress. We suspect that plain dresses reflect the fact that many dresses were sewn at home. Other dresses were more elaborately styled. We note some dresses with low waistlines. The dress the boy here is wearing is a good example (figure 1).
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