Figure 1.--A very young Luitpold is sn here with his mother. He looks to be about 1 or 2 years old and wears a fancy white dress. The portrait was robbly taken about 1902-03.

Luitpold like many boys at the time wore dresses as a younger child. While this fashion was declining after he turn of the centry, it was sill quite common--especially for boys from wealhy families. We have only limited portraits providing details about the drsseses he wore. There appear to have been seveal different styles. All appear to have been white or light colors like cream. We believe, however, that he almost certainly wore the same style of dresses that younger brother Albrecht wore and we have several images of Albrecht in dresses and skirted outfits. We note one image at about age 3, Luitpold is wearing a tunic lik skirted garment with lace trim. With this garment he is wearing kneepants, three-quarter socks and strap shoes. We are not yet sue precisely when he was breeched, bit wearing kneepants ith skirted garmnts rher complicates the issue.

Created: May 7, 2002
Last updated: May 7, 2002