Figure 1.--We see rather long knee pants in the 1860s. Most knee panys were cut at calf-lengh. (The term knee pants comes from a later, shorter cut.) Most of the suits we see have matching jackets and pants. We are still assessing the relative importance of the different types of pants such as bloomer knickers which were contempeaneous with knee pants. We note an unidentified Paris boy in a highly embroidered decorated cut-away jacket. Sometimes the emroidery was repeated on the pants, but not in this case. The boy looks to be about 6-years old. I looks similar to a Zouave style, but was not a bright color. The matching knee pant are long and very baggy. He is wearing white stckings which were common in the 60s. The studio was Bousseton & Appert in Paris with some high-class clients: the Queen of Spain, rhe maison of the emperor, salle of the Grand Duke Constantine.

Thus we can only begin to follow French fashion trends with the appearance of the CDV in numbers (1860s). Suddenly we see large numbers of images and we can begin to assess fashion trends in considerable details. We se several jacket styles, inckuding collar-bitting, cut-sawy, and lapel jackets. They were worn with both shortened-length and long pants. We see rather long knee pants in the 1860s. Most knee panys were cut at calf-lengh. (The term knee pants comes from a later, shorter cut.) Most of the suits we see have matching jackets and pants. We are still assessing the relative importance of the different types of pants such as bloomer knickers which were contempeaneous with knee pants. We note an unidentified Paris boy in a highly embroidered decorated cut-away jacket. Sometimes the enroidery was repeated on the pants, but not in this case. The boy looks to be about 6-years old. I looks similar to a Zouave style, but was not a bright color. The matching knee pant are long and very baggy. He is wearing white stckings which were common in the 60s (figure 1). On the previous page we see brothers wearing identical cut-away jackets and long knee pants, we think in the late-1860s, possibly the early-70s.

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