Figure 1.--This drawing shows an Empire dress with a low neckline worn by a small French boy in 1816 with pantalettes. A drawing from 1817 shows a girl wearing an almost identical dress and pantalettes. Click on the image to see the girl's dress. The outfit was described as Parisian, "Chapeau de paille, pantalon et robe de perkale." This means, "straw hat, pantalettes and dress of percale." |
The high-waisted and sometimes low neckline Empire dresses, worn with pantaletters were popular in the early 19th century. Some dresses seem to have no waistime at and fall straight down. Others have verhigh implied waistlines. Simple wight dresses wereve very common. Boys and girl's styles were almost identical, often with low necklines. Dresses were very long in the 1800s and panyalettes were hardly visible. By the 1910s, hems had begun to rise and pantallettes played an important role in a child's ensemble.
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