Figure 1.-- This unidentified Danish boy wears a tunic suit. He looks to be about 5 years ols. The cabinet card is undated, but we woukld huess was takn in the 1880s. It consists of a pleated tunic along with matching knee pants. This was a sailor-styled tunic. It did not have a V-front, but there are embroidered anchors on the collar and back flap. Also notice the floppy bow. We are not enbtirely sure about his cap, but believe it woukd have been een as a sailot cap. The photographer was Georg Hansen in Copenhagen. He also had a studio in St. Pertersburg, Russia.

Tunics were widely worn by Euroopean boys in the 19th century. We have very little information about Danish tunics. We believe that the tunic was a fairly common garment for Danish boys in the 19th century, but because of our limited archive cannot yet demostrate that. We have seen tunics in Scandinavia in the early-19th century and believe this was the case in Denmark. The onle example we have found cones from the 1880s, a pleated tunic suit with knee pants. Hopefully we will be able to say more as our Danish archive expands. Without the studio information, we could not have identified the outfit as Danish. It looks very similar to other tunics we have found in northern Europe and America.

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