Belgian Boys Clothes: Colors


Figure 1.--One early albumen portrait shows a girl wearing a rather drab grey dress with black trim. The boy wears a brown tunic with matching knee pants. Both children wear white stockings. This was a salt albumen print that was colorized. It was not a cabinet acrd or CDV. The dealer dates it to about 1857. That is rather specific but the late-50s was possible.

We do not have much information on clothing color yet. We hope to pursue this topic at greater length as HBC expands. At this point we can only comment on the few color images we have archived and can not yet assess trends. Early hotography of course was black and white. There were some colorized images. While colorized images are not the same as color photographs. We believe that colorized images usully tried to get the color if not the precise shade correctly. One early albumen portrait shows a girl wearing a rather drab grey dress with black trim (figure 1). The boy wears a brown tunic with matching knee pants. Both children wear white stockings. White and black cangenerally be determine in the black and white photography. We note a lot of children wearing what looks like black school smocks in the early-20th century. It could be a very dark blue, we are not sure.






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