Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified German mother in afashionable very long dress and and abun. She is holding her baby. Along side is her little boy who looms to be about 6 years old. He weas a suit with a loud patter. He seemd to have a matching vest, although that is difficult to tell. The boy's had very wide and long knee pants. The CDV has sharp corners. It is undated, but we would guess was taken in the early-1870s. The studio is Keller in Augsburg.

We do not notice many German boys wearing patterned suits in the 19th century. They seem much more common in America than in Germany and other Eruropean countries. Our 19th century archive is limited, but growing. And so far we see very few German boys wearing suits with patterns, especially bold patterns in the 19th century. We do see some German boys with patterned suits, but a rather small percentage of the portaits we have found so far. The few images that we have found are from the mid-19th century. We have next to no informtion about the first half of the 19th century. We do begin to dind images when the CDV format appared (1860s. Most of the patterned suits we note come from the 60s and 70s. We do not know about the earlier period, but in the 80s nd 90s we have found few patterned suits. We have a much mote detailed 20th century archive and here we see relatively little evidence that Germany boys wearing patterned suits. Again we do see a few examples, bit a relative small prortion. We note even fewer than the propotrtion of pattened suits we found in the 19th century. And this is what we observe beginning at the turn-of-the century.

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