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We see some boys at age 8 wearing dresses. This is an age where it was beginning to become relatively rare for boys to wear dresses. This varied greatly from family to family. And while boys wearing dresses at age 8 was only a fraction of those wearing dresses through age 5, it was by no means rare. This was something some mothers insisted on in the 19th century. These boys would surely be boys that were home schooled. They would also be mostly kept at home, although we note some acounts indicating that the eolder boys wearing dresses did not stay at hom all the time. Here we often have to estimate ages. Boys by age 8 would certainly have begun to want to wear trousers. We would like to find accounts describing discussions with mother. One aspect here we are unsure about is if these boys might have wore trousers on some occasions. Several boys about age are archieved on HBC wearing dresses. We note a Baltimote who looks to us to be 8 years old, we think in the 1870s. We note a Michigan boy who loos to be about 8 years old.
We note an unidentified family, probanly in the 1870s. The older boy looks to be about 8-9 years old.
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