Figure 1.--This unidentified little boy wears long dress with fancy trim. The cabinet card mount uggests in was taken about 1905-10. The boy looks to be about 2 years old. Mother foir some reason has ignored his hair |
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Younger boys still wore dresses at the turn-of-the 20th century, but the popularity of this convention was rapidly declining, a process which was Already notably observable by the mid-1890s. We see a substantial decline in boys wearing dresses at the end of the 19th century and this declined continued into the early-1900s. We still see boys wearing dresses in the 1900s, especially the early-1900s, but much less so than in the 1890s. A factor here is that while we see fewer boys wearing dresses in the 1890s, especially after about 1895, but kilt suits were still fairly common in the 1890s, by the turn-of-the 20th century, the kilt suit very rapidly went out of style. We are not entirely sure whu this long standing convention so rapidly disappeared, but we still see a few examples in the photographic record during the 1900s albeit almost exclusively very young boys.
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