Figure 1.--We have no information about this Americsn Dag. We have trouble distinguishing between 1840s and 50s Dags. The mother's hair styles suggests the 1850s to us, but our knowlegge of women's hair styles is minimal at best. We welcome reader input. Notice that the light blue coloring on the jacket and the wide, shortish sleeves with blouced blouse sleeves. Also cgarcterridic of the 1840s and 50s, the jacket and pants do not match.

Color information is limited in the 19th century. It comes mostly from paintuings, but the nomber of these are limited. Thanks to photography, beginning in the 1840s we have steadily increasing numbers of images. Thus we know a great deal about fashion trends than any other time in history. The one thing all these images do not tell us is about color as they are all black and white images. The cut-away jackert for boys went out of style well before color photography appeared. While the photograohy untl well into the 20th century was black and white, a few were colorized, Niw of course the cikorizer does not have to do so accurateky. We belkieve, however, that studios generally tried to do so. And their custimers expected then to do this. Now they may not get the precise shades right, but we believe that the availalble images do correctly reflect actual color trends. And the Ambros that appeared in the 1850s, were easier to colorize than the Dags that appeared in thev 1840s.

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