Figure 1.--Here we see an imposing English mother wearing an even more imposing dress with her little boy. He wears a short tunic and some kind of skirted garment. We think it may be a kilt suit because he also wears knee pants maching the skirt. A reader tells us it is hard to see. Click on the image to see a lightened impage making it easier to see the knee pants. The CDV portrait is undated, but looks like the 1860s. The portrait was taken at the T. Gibson studio in Hebden Bridge.

We see some mixed skirted garments. We are not entirely sure about the different combinations. The most common mixed skieted outfits is surely pinafores worn, mostly with dresses. This was very common for girls in the 19th and early-20th century. Younger boys also might wear dresses and pinafores. We note some other complications. One of these combinations is tunic suits. We notice tunic suits worn with pants, pantaletes, as well a skirted garments. We can not always see what the boys are wearing, but often we can. Tunics with skirted garments seems the least common alternarive and we usually only see the skirt part of the garment. So we do not know if the garment is a skirt, kilt (meaning a kilt suit skirt), or dress. We have not note tunics with skirts very commonly, but we do notice a few examples. The examples we have found come mostly from the mid-19th century. We are not sure about the early-19th century because photography was not yet invented. We think the tunic-skirt combination was not common in the late-19th century. We have a fairly extensive archive and we see little evidence of it.

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