Figure 1.--Here we see Louis Napoleon at 7 years of age. He is wearing a short pants outfit with white socks and strap shoes. His sister had a similar outfit, although done as a dress. They also had identical bobbed hair. It looks rther casual, but the children wore the outfitsfor a formal portait with their mother.

Victor Napoleon and his family seems to have moved in the same social cirles as the Belgian royal family. This the children knew the Belgian princes and princess. This of course was because their mother was a Belgian princess herself. Louis and his sister were dressed similarly as younger children. The photos on the previous page shows the Bonaparte children, brother and sister, wearing coordinated outfits taken (1921). ere is an individual portrait of Louis wearing the outfit (figure 1). Marie wears a white dress with white socks and strap shoes. Louis wears a similar outfit, but with short pants. In these photos taken with his sister resembles very much the style of clothes and hair style worn by their Belgium royal cousins whic is logical as their mother herself was a Belgian royal. The increasingly casual styles are also evident. In the first picture it looks as though Louis is wearing a dress, identical to that of his older sister. In the second, one can see that it is a co-ordinated shorts outfit. I don’t know whether one would call it a romper or a play suit. It looks to be an all in one outfit. Louis' bobbed hair is virtually identical to that of his sister.

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