Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified English family in thrir homey back garden. A scene recorded by the new family snapshots now added to the photopgraphic record. Here they are all dressed up, including headwear--biaterm briad-brummed sailor hat, and baby bonnet. To see their everyday home clothes put your cursor on the image.

Sailor suits were worn throughout the Edwardian era, but by increasingly younger boys. We note younger boys in school wearing them. A good example is the Hallgate National amd Bluecoat School in 1914. Fauntleroy velvet suits were still popular for party wear, but lace collars were giving way to ruffled collars and knee pants for short pants. Younger boys might white knee socks or stockings and strap shoes. New fashions such as rompers appeared for little boys. Older boys might wear boaters or flat caps. Peaked scool caos were becoming increasingly popular. Boys commonly wore suits. Norfolk suits very popular. We see a lot of boys weating Eton collars. Neckwar varied. Knickers and were pppular in the late-19th century. Knee pants weres also worn but knickers were more common, especially for older boys. We mostly see younger boys weaing knee pants which were gradually bginning to look more like short pants. Long stockings were going out of style and were rapaidly being replaced knee socks. We do not see knickers becoming widely popular as in America by the 1910s. Rather we increasingly see knee pants in the 1910s and they look nore like short pants, largely because they were being worn with knee socks rather than long stockings. It is often not possible to tell if the hosiery is knee socks or rolled down long stockings.

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