Figure 1.--Here we see two unidentified Colorado brothers. They look to be about 9-11 years old. Note the patterned mix of the suits. The boys also wear patterned shir wausrs with large wide dr=etachavke collars. Bpth boys have black long srockings and high-top shoes. The portarit is undated, but looks like the 1890s. The studio was Sours in Denver.

We note mixing of patterned and non-paterned items in the 1850s. This was often solid jackets with patterned vests and or pants. We do not notice patterned suits, at least patterns bold enough to be noted on studio photograpy until the late-19th century, especially the 1880s-90s. We note very loud patterned suits. They were of course mean to be worn with the same patterns for both the jacket and pants. We see that with the suit the boy on the previous page is wearing. But we see boys in the photographic record with mixed pattern outfits. This was not very common. Most mothers saw to that. The photograhic record is very extensive and thus any signifiicant level of mixing would show up in the photographic record. And we see very few portraits with boys wearing outfits with mixed patterns. We have images, but have no idea why the mothers involved permitted this. Poverty does not see to have been an issue given the fact that some of the boys involved ere soriced up and llo kikle that came from reasoably affluent families.

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