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Some blouses for younger children, both boys and girls, were done like the bodices for dresses -- without collars and with low necklines. With dresses this included both boys and girls. We mostly see these low-necklines as part of dresses, but it is often difficult to tell if these younger children are boys or girls. With blouses the gender is more clear. Girls did not werar pants, only boys wore pants. Although with skirts we are still not so cure about gender. With pants we are. We see these low-neclines in the 1840s and 50s, but not very many in the 1860s. Low necklibes seems a strange convention to us today when dresses with low neckines are not common. And becuse at the sanme time children wearing dresses covered their legs with pantalettes. Ny the 1860s, collar buttoning blouses, dresses, and suits dominated children's fashions. But such are the vageries of fashion.
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