Figure 1.-- We notice a cabinet card with an uidentied boy wearing a pinafore and dress. He looks to be about 3 years old. The boy holds a raquet to identify him as a boy. Notice how the pinafore does not cover his dress. The portrait is also undated. We would guess that it was taken in the 1880s, in part because of the dark green mount. We are unsure about the age conventions of the oval formatting. The studio information has been trimmed.

We think many 3-year old boys wore pinafores, in part because many boys at this age had not yet been breeched. Here social class was a factor. This of course varied over time. We notice a cabinet card with an uidentied boy wearing a pinafore and dress. He looks to be about 3 years old. The boy holds a raquet to identify him as a boy (Figure 1). Notice how the pinafore does not cover his dress. The portrait is also undated. We would guess that it was taken in the 1880s, in part because of the dark green mount. We are unsure about the age conventions of the oval formatting. The studio information has been trimmed.

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