Figure 1.--This Ambro shows a boy with a loud, florid best. Anbros date to about 1850-64 although some were taken later. as we don't see CDVs with these loud vests, it is very likely that this portrait was taken in 1855-60. Note the tiny touches of gold highlighting: the girls rings, earrings, and the boys ring as well. The girls have expensive looking gloves on and matching outfits but we think ones older then the other.

We continue to see vests in the 1850s as an importnt suit garment. We are still assessing prevalnce and colors. One of the problems we have in assessing the 1850s is that virtually none of the Dags are dated and could dates to the 1840s, 50s, and early-60s. We can spot the 60s Dags because we have the CDVs to determine styules. Differentiting between the 40s and 50s is much more difficult. Are major tool here is the ambros that appeared about 1855. Most Ambros were taken in the 1850s. Quite a nunber were taken in the early-60s, but they often can also be spotted because the huge number of CDVs establish the 60s styles. We know that often florid or bright colored vests were popular in the 1840s. But only when we found Ambros showing the loud vests that did not match the suits. were we sure that this was a popular style. We can not yet determine how prevalent these louds vests were. We think they were less common than the 40s, primarily because we do not see them in the 60s. We begin to see vests that matched the suits in the 1850s. we are still attempting to determine the prevalence. As well as wearing suits without vests or the vest wihout the suit jacket.

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