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Rosenboom has left us an extensive cultural record, this included not only fashion, but furnidoings and interiors. Our interest of course are the fashions, specifically the children's fashions. And we have a detailed sepiction of children clothes in the late-1860s and early-70s. Almost all the children he painted were pre-teen school age children, both boys and girls. We do not see much in the way of headwear given that so many of his paintings are indoor views, but we do see a few. We do not see any caps. The boys wear rounded-crown hats with streamers. The girls wear a variety of fancy hats. All the boys wear suits, although details on the suit jackets other than the colors are limited. Most of the images show the boys weraring black or navy blue suits. But we do notice other colors. They seem to be collar or near collar buttoning jackets. Many were worn with large white collars including Eton collars. All the boys wear knee pants, mostly with white socks rather than long stockings. And we see a few boys weraing while rather than matching knee pants, presumably a summer style. The girls are seen in fashionable hats and dresses. The girls' headwear is quite varied. We do not see the basic rounded-crown hats that the boys were wearing. Many of the dresses were done without waislinres, A-line styles with some low-wasted decoration.
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