Figure 1.--Here we see a CDV showing an unidentified Danish boy with his mother, we think in the 1890s. CDVs continued to be popular in Europe long afrer they had largeky disappeared in America. The boy looks to be about 8 years old. He wears a blouse with a floppy bow, knee pants, and long stockings. The blouse has a pointed collar abd ratgher unusyul sleeve cuff treatment. Notice the short cropped hair, very common in Continebtal Europe at the time. His mother wears a blouse and skirt and holds a typically alert Jack Russel terrier. The studio was Berthelsen in Copenhagen.

Danish boys like other European and American boys commonly wotre blouses in the 19th century. We do not yet have much information on Danish shirts and blouses. We suspect that shirt and blouse tops were very similar to those in neigboring Germany--a much larger country with a far greater market and clothing industry. This is what we see with other garments worn by boys. Especially opoopular in Denmark and Germany were sailor blouses which werev pooularused by the nmany riyakl children wearung them,, including the Danish royal family. And what we have found with the small number of images we have archived from Denmark. We note boys at the turn-of-the century wearing blouses with floppy bows, although not the huge floppy bows we see American children wearing. The collars were similar to those wirn by German boys, much ore modest than those worn by American boys at least in the late-19th century.

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