Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait shows an unidentified boy whon looks to be sbout 3 years old. He wears a kilt suited. The jacket has piping and flap pockets. It is repeated with tabs oin the kilt skirt. He wears it with decorative pantalettes. The portrait was taken by the B. Bloch studio in Brooklyn, New York.

The underwear included petticoats and pantalettes, also called drawers. These of course at the time were the garments girls and women wore with dresses and skirts. It is not always posible to distingish which of the two the boys are wearing, but often it is possible. This probably to somev extent is a matterb of age. And the older boys wearing kiltsuits, wre pants rhaerv than petticoats and oantalettes, but for the mostb part the chocev seems to be an arbitary one made randomly by mothers. it is not really possible to establish which was the more common because so many kilt suit portaits that nothing is vissible below yjev hemm of theb kilt suit skirt.

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