Figure 1.-- We note a variety of dresses that look like kilt suits. We see dresses that look like kilt suits, but are clearly drsses. Some seem to have two skirts. We are not sure why that was done, other than to look like kilt suits. This is all complicated because with the younger children involved you cannot always tell if the children are boys or girls. Here we see a CDV portrait of an unidentified child wearing a dress styled like a kilt suit. The portrait is undated, but would have probably been taken in the late-1860s. The studio was A&G Taylor. This was a company with sudios throughout Britain and the United States. This boy was photographed in Manchester.

We note a variety of dresses that look like kilt suits. We see dresses that look like kilt suits, but are clearly drsses. Some seem to have two skirts. We are not sure why that was done, other than to look like kilt suits. This is all complicated because with the younger children involved you cannot always tell if the children are boys or girls. We see girls wearing jacketed dresses, it was a fashionable styles. We note some boys wearing fancy outfits that may be jacketed dresses rather than kilt suits, although it is a little difficult to tell the difference. A good example is Oliver Strachley in 1879.

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