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We no longer see boys wearing dresses to any extent beyond the infancy stage. We have not found any catalogs at all offering boy dresses. We see virtually no example in studio portrait. We do see a few scattered snap shot of boy wearing dresses. Almost all were taken in rural areas. We have not informtion as to the circumstances. We suspect that the boys involved were growing up on farms where the mothers and grandmothers involved were not connected with popular fashions. They grew up in times when boys dresses were common and did not undetand the notable change in fashion conventions. Most of the examples we have found are toddlers abnd other pre-school boys, but we have seen a few younger school-age boys as well. Most of the example show the boys wearing simple white frocks. These woukd have been easy to launder garments. This was quite rare and we suspect only seen in rural areas because the boys involved would be teased by other boys.
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