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dresses: England unidentified child decorative dress
English Dresses: Unidentified Children--Image 7 Decorative Dress
Figure 1.--Here we have an English cabinet card portrait of an unidentified child about 4 years old. The short hair suggests that he as a boy., but some girls had shiort hair. He wears a knitted tam with a jaunty pom. And he has an elaborate mullti-tiered dress. All the white makes it difficult to make out the details This teared styling was a popular dress style in the 1870s. There seems to be a simple collar, possibly a Peter Pan collar. We also see a large lace collar with a back flap added on, repeated at the cuffs.
Here we have an English cabinet card portrait of an unidentified child about 4 years old. The short hair suggests that he as a boy., but some girls had shiort hair. He wears a knitted tam with a jaunty pom. And he has an elaborate mullti-tiered dress. All the white makes it difficult to make out the details This teared styling was a popular dress style in the 1870s. There seems to be a simple collar, possibly a Peter Pan collar. We also see a large lace collar with a back flap added on, repeated at the cuffs. The dress is very complicated, there re vertical features in the vodice. The skirt has ribbons, pleats and tiered formations. The side bows probably lead to a large back bow. There is no identification on the back of the card. We initially thought that this was an older boy, but in studying the portrait more we believe that he was clearly a pre-school child. And some boys this age were wearing dresses in the 1870s. If it had been an older child, we would have tend to think the child must be a girl. We see fewer boys, however, wearing such fancy dresseses. So this definitely could have been a boy. And he does look like a boy. The studio was Sarony in Scarborough.
