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We see both button-on one-piece suits and jacket suits in the 1860s. Youngerboys might wear the one-piece suits. We do noy yet have a good fix on the age conventins. We believe that tghey were worn by pre-school boys and boys in the early-primary years, boys usually up to about 8 years of age, but perhaps as old as 10 years. This is just our preliminary assessment. We see various jacket suits as well. There were two common styles. one was the the short, collar buttoning jacket like the boy here is wearing (figure 1). The other was the cut-away jacket suit. These jacket suits were worn by older boys. We see boys of aboyt 5-12 years of age wearing them. We need to archive more images before definatively establishing the age ranges. We think that the age range for the collar buttoning suits was a little highee than the cut-away jacket suits. The Lincoln boys in the White House wore the collar buttoning suits. Mrs. Linclon who was obsessed with with fashion, but did not give all that much attention to the boys' outfits. A factor here was that the Lincolns came from a rather small Western town (despite being the state capital) and not a fashionable northeastern city. We also see sack suit jackets for older boys.
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