Figure 1.-- Here is one of the boy dresses. The Best ad copy read, "AS BOYISH as straight tucks and straight box-pleats of lawn and a simple little collar and two rows of buttons can make it. Deep hem. 1 to 3 years ... $4.25."
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Figure 1.-- Here is one of the boy dresses. The Best ad copy read, "AS BOYISH as straight tucks and straight box-pleats of lawn and a simple little collar and two rows of buttons can make it. Deep hem. 1 to 3 years ... $4.25." |
Here is one of the boy dresses. The Best ad copy read, "AS BOYISH as straight tucks and straight box-pleats of lawn and a simple little collar and two rows of buttons can make it. Deep hem. 1 to 3 years ... $4.25." A reader writes, "I think the dress 534 which is described as "boyish" shows a girl model, but is indicative that conventions were just starting to appear.
Here Best seems to have used a boy model to illustrate the dress, but swe do not see anything boyish about the dress itself.
This dress was clearly depicted as a dress for girls. Some of the models used to illustrate these dresses are not clearly drawn as boys or girls. Of course adding the hair bow leads no doubt that the child here is a girl.
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