Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows two unidentified English brothers wdearing knee pants suits with a bousr toom rather than a jacket. The blouse is sone with militarty styled detailing. The look to be about 5-7 years old. They are pictured with a cricket bat, although look too yoing to have begun boarding school where sports were an important part of the program. The studio was Alfred Seeley in Richmond Hiil whuich offered not only phtographic portraits, but painted portraits as well.

We see a range of English outfits that have a military look to them. Unlike sailor suits, they were not done to look like actual British military uniforms. But they have styling detailing commonly found with military uniforms. We note striping, sttykled collrs, epsulettes, styled cuffs, pants stripes, and otherb features. We are not entirely sure how to describe these outfits as they were not mock ups of actual English uniforms, only outfits that had a military look to them. We see quite a number of outfits in the 1870s, after this the sailor suit becomes the dominant military style worn by English boys. Here we have a range of oufits and variations in the extent of military detailing utilized on the outfits. These uniform styles might be include in the fancy suit section.

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