Figure 1.--This unidentified American boy looks to about 2 years old. This is the age that nmany boys began wearing tunic suits in the early-20th century. Earlier boys this ge would have worn dresses.

We do not have much information on the age of boys wearing tunics in the 19th century. As far as we can tell, really youngr boys did not wear tunucs in 19th century. They were more likely to wear dresses. We suspect that most boys 2 years old would have not yet been breeched and still wearing dresses in the 19th century. Tunics n the early-19th century seem more common fir scholl-age boys. Thus we think tunics were less common for 2-year old during most of the 19th century than was the age in the early-20th century. We do not have much information for the 19th century, especially the early-19th century. But we know that boys commonly wore dresses at 2 years of age during the 19th century. By the 1890s, however, it was beginning to be less common for boys to wear dresses. Thus we see 2-year olds wearing tunics in the early 20th century. This continued throughout the 1900s and 10s, but after World War I tunics rapidly disappeared in the early-1920s.

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