** United States boys clothes : early-1860s southern family
United States Families: Southern Family (Early-1860s)
Figure 1.--Here we have an unidentifies CDV portrait of a young mother and father abd their son. It is undated, but the mount without any identifying information and the clothes suggest the Civil War early-1860s era to us. The dealer believes it was a southern family because of it was found with a batch of southern photographs. The lady's and boy's sleeves in particular suggest the 1850s or early-60s, but as this is a CDV it is probably the early-60s. Click on the image for a closer look at the boy's outfit.
Here we have an unidentifies CDV portrait of a young mother and father abd their son. It is undated, but the mount without any identifying information and the clothes suggest the Civil War early-1860s era to us. The dealer believes it was a southern family because of it was found with a batch of southern photographs. The lady's and boy's sleeves in particular suggest the 1850s or early-60s, but as this is a CDV it is probably the early-60s. The father wears a long jacket and checked trousers that do not match the jacket. Mother wears a voluminous dress surely with a hoop skirt. The boy wears a cut-away jacket with unusual two connecting bands and long trousers. Notice the half sleeves worn with blocing sleeves. As was often the case in the 86=50s, the boy's jacket and trousers do noit match. He looks to be about 5-6 years old. Also notice his hair cut. Today we might call it a mullet, but we see cuts like that quite a bit in the 1860s. We suspect that boys were not as commonly sent to the barber. This began to chsnge in the 1870s ax part of rising affluence with trhe developing industrial economy.
