Figure 1.--This CDV portrait has no associated information, but it comes from a Canadian dealer so we believe it is a Canadian CDV. The boy wears a velvet dress weith a tunic look. Notice the pantalettes. Gatthered pantlettes were not very common. While undated, we would guess the portrait aas taken about 1870.

Not very many old photographs note the children's ages. Some do, but not very many. We are forced to estimate ages, but the prices is higly subjective. Given that the children are almost all younger children, we can not be too far off in our estimates. Our Canadian archive is fairly limited. Thus we can not yet make any assessment of Canadian dress trends. We suspect that age trends were similar to America and Britain. We do not have many photographic images of Canadian boys wearing dresses, but we are gradually acquiring a few. The ones we have found are mnostly boys through about age 5 years. A good example is 2 year old Francis Allan about 1900. We note a CDV of an unidentified boy in a velvet dress with a tunic look to it who looks to be about 5 years old (figure 1). There is no information associted with the CDV, but we would guess that it was taken about 1870. We see few school age boys wering dresses, but the boy on the previous page here looks to b about 6-7 years old.

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