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It took some time for Western garments to become well-established in Bulgaria along with Western fashion conventions. It began with the educated and wealthy and gradually spread to the middle- and finally working-classes. And finlly to the rural peasantry. All of this of course began in the cities. Change was much sloweer in the less fashion-concious countryside. And by the time Western fashions were well-established after World War I, the convention of dressing younger boys in skirted garments was declining. Thus we are unsure to what extent it was prevalent in Bulgaria. Our small Bulgrian archive provides only limited information. We simply do not have the needed imagery to follow Bulgarian trends as we do for many other European countries. We do see some boys in wealthy families wearing fashonable skirted garments in the late-19th century. And this includes even smll towens as we see on yhe prviousd pge. We are not yet sure about middle-class families. We seen very young boys wearing dresses after World War I and the World War II era (figure 1). We do not know how common this was. We hope to deal with this topic more adequately as HBC's archive grows.
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