Figure 1.--Here we have a CDV portrait of an unidentified Scottish boy. He looks to be about 10-years old. He is wearing a velvet cut-away jacket suit with a vest with full cut knicker pants. The jacket is heavily decorated withbsatin or silk piping. The suit is worn with white long stockings and lace-up high-top shoes. The studio was A.W. Maguire in Selkirk, Scotland.

We see Scottish boys beginning to wear cut-away jackets at mid-19th century. This was a popular style in England, the rest of Europe, and the United States. It was one of the most common styles for younger school-age boys at a time that boys commonly wiore suit. There was a wide range of styles. The styles we see in Scotland are basically the same as what we see in England and America. They were done in different materials and variously styled. Many were very plain and others were highly decorated with enbroidery and piping and of course every variant in between. The cut also varied with different degrees of cutting away. This was a style for younger boys. Cut-away jackets are a style boys would have worn after breeching and worn to about 10/12 years of age. We see these jackets from the mid-19th century to the turn-of-the 20th century. This isthe style of jacket worn with Fauntleroy suits, often with very small cut-away jackets so that the fancy Fauntleroy blouses could be seen to best affect. They were worn with different tyes of pants, including knee pants, knickers, and long pants. The only major difference in Scotland is that we see them being worn with kilts.

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