Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows three children, presumably siblings. They look to be aboyt 2-8b years old. The boy wears a short collarbuttoning jacket with long knee pants. His sister wears a round lace collar with matching wrist trim, a knee-length dress, and pantalettes. Both wear long stockings and high-top shoes. We are unsure if the toddler is a boy or girl, but he or she is wearing knee socks rather than long stockings. The mount and clothing suggests the 1870s. We do not have a large enough New Zealand archive to date New Zealand CDVs, but the mount style is consisten to Anerican 1870s CDVs. The studio is A. Martin in Wangannui.

Suits were very common in New Zealand during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. This is basically the same pattern as in Europe and America. Suits were much more common at the time than is the case today. New Zealand is a very small country with a limited photographic record largely located at home. Thus we have only limited information on the country' fashion trends. We do not see skeleton suits becuse these suits were worn before European settlement began (early-19th century). We note a range of suits for younger boys. We note collar-buttoning jackets in the 1870s. This is, however, are only 19th century image. The 20th century images we have found look essentially the sane as Brotish styles. The only basic difference we see is a lot more New Zealand boys going barefoot.

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