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Most of the kilt suits we have noted in the photographic record were worn by boys 6 yers of age or younger. We have noted a few older boys wearing them. As many of our images do not note the boy's age, we have to estimte ages. Whike this is imprecise, we believe that our estimtes are accurate within a year or so. We welcome readers to offer their estimstes if they disagree. Sometimes boys as old as 7 or 8 years might still wear them kilt suits, perhaps a few boys even older. As mentioned above, these boys did not wear thrir kikt suits to school. We do not even see the 6 year olds begunning school wearing kilt suits. This may have been esoecially common for boys who were small in stature. Many mothers considered a boys size rather than his age to be the determining factor. Inteestingly, we note more boys in the photographic record wearing dresses than kilt suits. We suspect that the photographic record is a felstively good reflection of prevakence. We do not understand why this seems to have been the case. Perhaps mothers resisting breeching their sons were not interested in half way measures like kikt suits, some of hich were orn with knee oants. Perhps readers msy have some idea about this.
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