Figure 1.--Here we see the children of an unidentifioed family, they look to be anout 4-10 years old. The girl wears apatterned dress with velvet trim. The boys wears suits. The younger boys wears a cut-away jacket suit with ringlet curls and a top curl. The older bioys wears a button-on suit. The age conventions fir these suits were about the same. This looks to be about 4 and 7 years old. .

We see quite a few image of boys we believe to be 7 years old, although most are estimates as most of our archive is undated images. Thus we can not be entirely sure about the images, but we would be surprised if we were off more than a year. This was an age that mny boys wore these suits, although we do not see many boys wearing them to school. A factor here is that we are just beginning to see the tradition of school photography beginning to be established when these suits were most popular (1860s-70s) during the 19h century. The age of 7 years was the second grade nmakking 7b year olds anong the youngest children at school. The suits were done with long pants, knee pantrs, and knickrts in the 29th century. Age as far as we can tell, the choice of pants with these suits had nothing to do with age. We see some 7-year olds wearing dressy button-on outfits in the 20th centuy, but it was the upper or at or near the upper age limit for these outfits.

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