Figure 1.-- We do not have the precise date for this British card, one source dates it at 1904-16. We would thisd estimate about 1910. This is not a color phogographed, but rather a black and white colorized photograph. Notice the boy's pink srap shoes. |
Post cards were very popular in the early 20th century. Many poscards feature children. Many commercial were photo postcards. This meant black and white photographs. Some of these cards, however, were colorized. Pink was one of the colors being used and it was used gor both boys and girls. This is not evidence that boys were commonly wearing pink. The colorized postcards made no real attempt to match the colors actually worn. The people doing the colorizing commonly had no idea what color the children were wearing. The use of pink, however, suggests it was a color that was not considered outlandish at the time. We do not have the precise date for this card, one source dates it at 1904-16. We would thisd estimate about 1910. This is not a color phogographed, but rather a black and white colorized photograph. Notice the boy's pink srap shoes. (I think these photos were colorized by hand. But notice how carefully the strap shoes are painted. We think that this was a color painted in at the time and not a color actually worn by boys. The fact that it was painted in, however, suggests that color convebtions were not as stricy in the 1910s as the case today.
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