Figure 1.--Many of the images we have found of French boys wearing tunic suits are commercial post cards, suggesting it was more of a fashionable than a popular style.

Tunics were were one of the most fashionable children's styles at the turn of the century. We are less sure about the populrity of tunics. We note tunic suits being worn with both bloomer knickers and knee pants. We are unsure about the populsarity. We seem to see more images in commercial postcards than family snapshots. This suggest that they were more common among fashionable, affluent families. They so not seem to have been worn much by working-class children. They were worn throughout the 1900s and early 1910s, but declined in popularity during World War I (1914-18). I'm not sure why this was, but perhaps such fashions which accentuated childish innosence were just not in keeping with the horrors of the war. We note a number of French boys weraring them. They seem especially common in French post cards, suggesting that they were a fashionable style. They seem to have been, however, much more popular in America. These tunics were little seen by the 1920s, especially by mid-decade.