Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows an unidentified English boy wearing a checkered pattern tunic outfit. He looks to be about 7-years old. Notice tht the bloomer knickers match the tunic. The portrait is undated, but it looks to us like it was taken in the late-1860s. The studio was A Henschel & Co., but unusully the city is not specified.

We have only limited information on color, but the black and white photography does show patterns. We are not sure about the colors worn in the 1860s. We suspct blue was a very common color for the dark tunics we see. But blue would not have been the only color as paintings throughout the early-19th century show. We also see some lighter colors. But as the photography is all black and white, we are unsure as to the color. Some would have been grey. We know more aout patterns. The tunics we see in the first half of the 19th century were all plain colored outfits, at least the images we have found so far. We first see patterned tunics in the 1860s, we think in the late-1860s. We can not be more precise because the earliest images we have found of patterned tunics are undated and we have had to estimate the dates. We notice a boy wearing a checked tunic suit with a white collar and small bow, we think in the late-1860s.

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