Figure 1.--Here we see three unidentifies Australain children. The boy weara a blouse jacket, knee pants, and long stockings. The portatit is undated but the CDV mount looks like the 1870s. The studio was J. Deazeley in Brisbane,. |
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As far as we can tell, Australian pants styles were basically the same as in England, although with provisio made for climate. Heavy winter clothes were not needed. An exception was Tasmania where it was somewhat cooler, but that was a small part of the Australian population. While we only have a few 19th century images, the images we have found basically show Australian boys wearing English styles. For some time the only major difference we see between Australian and non-winter English clothing was that Australian boys much more commonly went barefoot in the warm Australian weather. We do not have a large 19th century Australian photographic archive. But we see boys wearing knee pants. We do not see knickers which were common in Britain durung the 19th century, but our archive is too small to make any definative assessment. We do not yet have enough 19th century images to develop any real asessments of trends.
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