American Tunics: The 1870s--Diagonal Designs

American boy tunic

Figure 1.--We believe the boy here is wearing a tunic suit. Notice the diagonal styling. We do not know where this American tin-type was taken.

We notice considerable variation in designs. A popular deign was a diagonal design element. A reader writes, "You can see these diagonal front cuts of the jackets conciderably often in the 1870s." We are not entirely sure about the chronology of these disgonal cut tunics. I believe the style first appeared in the 1860s, but it seems most popular in the 1870s. The diagonal cut was commonly accented with both piping and buttons.








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