Figure 1.--This postcard-back potrit shows two boys with identical tunic suits done with short pants. They look tobe about 1-3 years old. They are photogaphed with their grandmother. The portrait is undated, but was probably taken in the 1900s decade.

There was a renewed popularity of tunic suits at the turn-of-the 20th century. We see it in both Eurooe and America. The fashion, however, does not seem quite as popular in England as several other countries such as America and France. We have seen relatively few images of English wearing tunics at the turn-of-the 20th century. Our English archive is not as large as our American archive, but we have archived quite a number of images. We see tunic suits in which the tunic and pants match making them tunic suits. The pants seem to be mostly knee pants which you can see here in the previous page. While in France and especislly America we see a lot of bloomer knickers. The tunics suits worn by American and French boys in the early 20th Century seem much less common in England. The English tunics we have found seem shorter than what we see in America and France. English boys seem to have worn knee pants suits without the long tunics worn in France and America and were much more plain than the French suits. This is not to say that they were not worn, only that they were not as common. As in other countries there seems to be a social class factor, although the boyson the previous page do not seem to come from a well-to-do family.

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