Figure 1.--This unidentified Norwegian boy looks to be about 4 years old. The CDV portrait was taken in Levanger is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county north of Oslo. The studio was L. Bjerkan. The CDV also has Voerdalsören. I'm not sure what that meant. The boy wears a sailor cap with a belted plaid-like dress or tunic. The portrait is undated, but the large ruffled collar suggests the 1880s. He also wears long stockings which were very common in Norway.

Younger Norwegian boys in the 19th century wore various skirted garments. This was the general pattern throughout Europe anf North America, We assume that Norwegian mothers followed the same vasic trends. As children clothes were influenced by both Britain and and Germany (through Sweden), trends presumably were similar to those countries, but as there were differences in those countries, we are not sure how fashion trends played out in Norway. Our Norwegian artchive is very limited, thus we are unable to use it to establish even the mopst basic trends,. We do see younger Norwegioan boys wearing skirted garmenjyts, but that is all we can confirm ar\t this time.

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