Figure 1.-- This cabinet portrait shows an unidentified family portrait. They look to us to be a solid middle-class family. An imposing mother and father are posed with their little boy. He looks to be about 4 years old and wears a cut-away jacket, vest, Eton collar, and Highland kilt complete with sporan. Images like this suggest that the kilt was fairly common boys' wear in Scotland, atleast for boys from middle-class families. The portrait is undated, but the man's beard amd woman's dress suggest the 1880s or very-early-90s to us.

This cabinet portrait shows an unidentified family portrait. They look to us to be a solid middle-class family. An imposing mother and father are posed with their little boy. He looks to be about 4 years old and wears a cut-away jacket, vest, Eton collar, and Highland kilt complete with sporan. Images like this suggest that the kilt was fairly common boys' wear in Scotland, atleast for boys from middle-class families. The portrait is undated, but the man's beard amd woman's dress suggest the 1880s or very-early-90s to us. Hopefully readers mor familiar with dresses can offer insights here. The photographer was J. Norval whio had studios in Dunfermiline and Alloa. Dunfermline was just north of Edinburgh and the Fith of Forth. This is the southern border of the Highlands. Alloa is just to the west.

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