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The jackets of boys after breeching lacked adult tails, and this may have influenced the adult tail-less styles which developed, initially for casual wear of various sorts, like the smoking-jacket and sports jacket. After the First World War the wearing of boy's dresses seems finally to have died out, except for babies.
Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5; Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837–1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9 (full text available online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collections)
The girls wear white dresses with colored aprons. The Family of Dr. Josef August Eltz, Austria, 1835. 1830s fashion in Western and Western-influenced fashion is characterized by an emphasis on breadth , initially at the shoulder and later in the hips, in contrast to the narrower silhouettes that had predominated between 1800 and 1820.
1837 dress. During the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, the ideal shape of the Victorian woman was a long slim torso emphasised by wide hips. To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4]
The teenage boy has powdered hair and wears a frock coat and knee length breeches. The youngest child wears a loose white frock with a cloth belt, 1769; Young Russian boy in court dress, with powdered hair and miniature sword, c. 1770. Boy's suit of the early 1770s is worn with a collared shirt and a floppy bow at the neck. Young girls with ...
Both boys and girls wore skirts from the time they could walk until they reached age 5 or 6. Very small girls wore their skirts just below knee-length over pantalettes . Skirts became very gradually longer as girls grew up until they reached ankle length at coming-out (in their later teens, usually 16–18).
Just like ladies, all upper-class Victorian girls wore gloves when going out. A hat or bonnet was worn as well, along with long, knee-length button-up boots or shorter boots with gaiters to give the appearance of wearing long boots. Older boys wore knee-length breeches and jackets with round-collared shirts.
Toddlers wore washable dresses called frocks of linen or cotton. [24] British and American boys after perhaps three began to wear rather short pantaloons and short jackets, and for very young boys the skeleton suit was introduced. [24] These gave the first real alternative to boys' dresses, and became fashionable across Europe.