Figure 1.-- This CDV portrait shows an unidentified young mother with five chilren who all look to be under 8 years of age or so. There are two boys wearing identical kilt suits with small Eton collars and bows. Notice the knee socks. That was common in England, buth Armerican boys almost always wore long stockings with kilt suits. As there are two younger children. We belive the boys wearing the kilt suits are probaby about 4-6 years old. The boys look a bit younger, but biology imposes limits on how closely siblings can be born closer together. The portrait s undated, but we are daitly condident in dating it to the 1870s, probaablky the early-70s. The photograoher was A & G Taylor a major concerns with appoinments to the Queen and studios all over the country. This portrait was apparently taken in Hanley, Staffordshire.

The 1870s decade was one of the most common decades for kilt suits. And the same seems tgo be the case in England. While we haved found a number of photographic images of English boys wearing kilt suits, we have found very few that are actually dated. As a result, we are left having to estimate the dates. We believe we can do this to a fair degree of accuracy, but it is not the same as having a dated image. We see a good example of what looks like a kilt suit with an unidentified boy dating to about the early-70s, but could be the late-60s. Ernest on the previous page here wears a kilt suit (1876). One undated portrait wih young children shows the two younger boys, probably 3-5 years old wearing kilt suits.

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