Figure 1.-- We have a Canadian advertisement for a little boy dress with crosspoint embroiderie in 1900. I am not positive anout the date. Rounded numbers are sometimes used as estimates. The style does look correct for the period. We are not entirely sure about the source. It is a Quebec ad and written in French. |
Younger boys still commonly wore dresses in 1900. This convention was declining, but still widespread. We have a Canadian advertisement for a little boy dress with crosspoint embroiderie in 1900. I am not positive anout the date. Rounded numbers are sometimes used as estimates. The style does look correct for the period. We are not entirely sure about the source. It is a Quebec ad and written in French. A HBC reader suggests that it is a newspaper advertisement. This is possible, but we note it appeared on page 588. I'm not sure how Canadian newspapers were paginated, but it seems to us that it more likely was in some kind of magazine or journal. Perhaps it was a fashion magazine of some type. The illustration is captioned, "1. Blouse russe avec broderie au point de croix pour petits garçons". That means, "Russian blouse for little boy embroidered with needle point. Underneath the illustration there is a "Description de la mode". Unfortunately the ad copy is cropped, so we do ot know what it said. It does not look, however, like a newspaper advertisement.
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