Figure 1.--Here we see a tin-type portrait showing a cutaway jacket being worn with a dress. The portrat is undated, but looks like the early-1870s to us. The chils is unidentified. Center hair parts suggest girls, but are usually more defined than the child here. Click on the image for an enlarged view.

Most boys wore cut-away jackets with various kinds of pants. The suits included knee pants, knickers, and long pants, but mostly we see some kind of pants. We also see cut-away jackets being worn with dresses. This obviously meant girls, but a few younger boys still wearing dresses had cut-away jackets. These jackets seem more stylish tht the cut-away jackets worn with pants. As part of dress outfits, they were done in the same material and style of the dress. Which means that that they were more coloful and stylish than the cut-away jackets wirn with pants. We notice a range of jacketed dress. The cut away jacket was just one of the different jacket styles.

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