Figure 1.--This CDV shows the children of an unidentified family, we think in the 1870s. The children look to be about 5-14 years old. The yonger boy wears a velvet tunuc suit with stripe detailing, popular in the 1870s. The studio was Lowe in Loughborough, Leics.

We see boys wearing tunics from about 4-10 years of age. The boy on the previous page looks to be about 5 years old. We only see younger boys wearing them up to about 8 years of age. A factor here may be this is about the age that well-to-do boys began boarding school. Some boys may have worn them to age 10 years, but mot o the images we have found are boys up to only about 8 years of age. Usually we can use school portraits to help refine age estimates. We do not see boys wearing tunics to state schools. And there was a significant expamsion of the state system in the1870s. Our 1870s archive is still limited, but with what we have found does not show boys wearing tunics which limits our age estimates.

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