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American mail order catalogs offer a very view of the styles and garments over time to help us view changing fashion trends. Coats were made for girls in the 1880s. Along with the misses' (girls') suits were "children's suits". Often the term children was used to mean boys and girls. Some catalogs, however appear to have used children to mean either younger boys or girls.
The B. Altman No. 49 catalog has three pages of misses and children's skirted suits mixed with cloaks, meaning jackets and coats. There seems to be no difference between the term coat and jacket in this catalog. The suit styles for the younger children seemed designed primarily for girls, but some of the styles could have been worn by a younger boy as well. The coats seem more clearly styled for girls only. At this time HBC does not know the date of this catalog, but believes it was the early 1880s, perhaps late 1870s.
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