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Here we have an unidentified portrait of a brother and sister in a First Communion outfits, probably about 1905. We woukd guess that they are an Italian immigrant family. They are picture with their proud mother. The girl looks to be anout 8 years old and wears a veil and junior wedding dress, cut shorter than many we notice at the time. The boy wears a knee pants suit. He seems too old to be doing his first communion. He looks to be about 13 years old. Sometimes mothers had children of different ages do their First Communions together, but here the age difference seems too wide. Perhaps he was doing his confirmation. We are not sure what the bottinaire affair on his lapel is all about. Our dating is largely based on his knee pants suit. Boys in the 1910s mostly wore knickers suit. We see some boys in the 10s wearing blouses and knee pnats, but not knee pants suits like the boy here is wearing.
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