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United States boys clothes : 1865 Unidentified brother and sister 1865
Unidentified Children (New York, 1865)
Figure 1.-- Here we have another northern Civil War family. The CDV portrait is undated, but as it has a revenue stamp on the back we know it was taken 1864-66, so 1865 seems a likely guess. This looks to be prosperous family, not only the styles they are wearing, but the fit and tailoring. The hoop skirt in particular suggests affluence because there wasn't much a person could do wearing a hoop skirt dress. The portrait shows the three children of the family, two boys and a girl. They look to be aboutv 9-16 years old.
Here we have another northern Civil War family. The CDV portrait is undated, but as it has a revenue stamp on the back we knoww it was taken 1864-66, so 1965 seems a likely guess. This looks to bea prosperous family, not only the styles they are wearing, but the fit and tailoring. The hoop skirt in particular suggests affluence because there wasn't much a person could do wearing a hoop skirt dress. The portrait shows the three children of the family, two boys and a girl. They look to be aboutv 9-16 years old. The older boy's long pants suit and hair style looks decidedely modern, except for the high-set lapels of his suit jacket. THeir sister wears a great period hoop skirt dress. Notice the bloused sleeves. You kind of wonder how she got ariund with that contraption . Their little brother also wears obviously period styles. He wears a cut-away jacket, very popular for younger boys at the time. He has a white shirt with a small pointed collar. We are not sure the collar was part of the shirt. Boys wore these cut-away jackers with knee pants, knickers, and long pants. The boy there wears long, baggy knickers rather like Zouave pants. There were social class factor involved here. Most American boys in the 1860s wore long pants, but fashionable northeastern families often chose shortened-length knee pants or knickers. They entered entered the workplace later than boys from well-to-do families. The studio was R.A. Lord in New York.
