Figure 1.--This unidentified Uruguayan boy looks to be about 6 years old. He wears a collar-buttoning jacket with a large white collar and floppy bow. Based on writing on the back it looks to be dated to 1877. He wears bloomer knickers, striped long stockings, and low-cut shoes. There is a name written on thevback, E.G. de Lavia, but we are not sure that is the boy's name and it is also written on the back of a girl's portrait, perhaps his older suster. The studio was Chute & Brooks in Montevideo.

Boys commonly wore suits in the 19th century. We have not informtion on the early-19th century. We suspect thst boys wore skeleton suits, the populsr style in Europe. Boys in the second half of the 19th century wore the msny suit styles popular in Europe. Younger boys once breeched wore cut-away jacket suits with knee pants and bloomer knickers. The unidentified Montivedeo boy on the previous page in the 1870s is a good example. He wears a cut-away jacket and vest. Notice the fancy embroidery work. We also note other suit styles like collar buttoning jackets and lapel jackets. The boy here wears a collar buttoning jacket with a bow (figure 1). We believe it was taken in 1877.

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