Figure 1.-This CDV portait shows two very youb unidentified childre, It is also undated, but looks like the 1860s to us. he seller dated it to the 18790s, possibly but obly the very early-70s. Desopiye the center oart, we think the chiold standing is a boy. Ths high-necl=kline skirted garment looks somewhat like a tunic. The studio is Usher in Ramsgaste.

For the early-19th century we have to rely on art work, just like the 18th century. We note boys wearing dresses and tunics in the early 20th century. Thomas Hazelhurst painted a minature of a boy from a well-to-do family wearing and Empit dress. probznoy in the early-1800s. An unkown artists painted a group of childre, we think in the 1810s. E.V. Ripingille painted a family with three children (1820s). The younger boy weas a long tunic. His older btother wears a skeleton suit. Frederick Yeates Hurlstone shows a boy wearing a bugundy tunic at the very end of the Regency (1830s). Edwin Dalton Smith painted a minature of a boy in a green dress wih baloon sleeves (1830s). We note another portait by an unknown artist of a boy wearing a blue dress (1830s). Kilt outfits cane in at mid-century sfter the Scotish loving Victoria becane queen (1837). She and Prince Albert began dressing the princes in kilts. With the invention of photography (1839) begin to see examples phitographic images, but only a small number from England. We see quite a range of dresses, kilts and kilt suits, pinafores, skirts, and tunics. William Allsworth painted boys wearing dresses and kilts with Scottish regalia (1840s). William Beetham painted boiys wearing dresses and tunics (1840s). George Richmond painted a brither and sister wearing dresses wih pantalettes (1840s). Another boy looks to be wearing a velvet dress. Robert Thornburn pained a group of children with low ndclkines and baloon sleeves, we think in the 1840s, they look like boys. Joseph Nash painted a view of the Great Exhibition with a little boy wearing a tinic and pantalettes visiting (1850s). William Bromkley shows a rural boy wearing a smock (1850s). This was niot a child's garment, but widely wirn by English farmers at the time. Michael Frederick Halliday pinted a Scottish scene with a boy wearing a kilt (1850s). Charles Hunt painted a contrived scene of a well-to-do boy wearing a black tunic and pantalettes (1850s). Rebecca Solomon painted a domestic sdcene scene with a boy and his governess. He is wearing a burgundy velvet tunic with pantalettes (1850s). Frederic George Stephens painted a domestic scene with we think a boyv wearing some sort of sjirted garment (1850s). W.R. Walyers painted a child in a dress, but we are not sure about gender (1850s). Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted a Polish cojuntess and her two sons. The boys seen to be cwearinh tunics with lace collars (1850s). Skirted garments were worn in the early-19th century, but it is not until the advent of the CDVs that we we begin to have a substantial photographic record (1860s). The child here is a good example (figure 1). This allows us to develop assessments of the various types of shirted garments, ages, gender, usage conventions, social class, and other important trends. Unfortunately we have only a few decades to work with. This was the tail end of the many centuries in which boys wore skirted garments. Felix Stone Moscheles painted portrait of a boy with ringlet curls and wearing a lace trimed velvet dress with a Scottish sash (1860s). Helem Allingham painted boys wearing dresses, smocks, and pinmafores (1880s). Anna Kee Merrit paints the children of an artocratic family. Thr youngest child looks to be a boy wearing ahite dress. Julian Russel Story wears a wealthy boy wearing lace-trimmed dress a large green sash (1890s).

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