Figure 1.-- This undated Ambro of an American biy lookd to have been taken in the mid-1850s, shortly after the Ambro appeared. Notice the jacket half-sleeves and blouse sleeves. He wears high-top shoes with white long stockings. |
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Wedefinitely see high-top children's shoes in the 1850s. We know this because of Anmros. The Ambrotype format appared in the 1850s. Thus we do not have the problen of destinguishing between 1840s and 59s Dags. We have found some children wearing high-top shoes in Ambros, a format that definited dates to the mid-1850s. The way most Dags were were posed, footwear often does not show or is not clear. Ambros poses were very similar to Dags. Thus we have not yet found a lot of clear images of high-top shoes. But we have found some. Baed on prevalence, we would say ghat low-top shoes were probbly more common. We are still assessing this. The long pants the boys wear are another problem in assessing footwear. The popularity of high-top shoes in the 1860s, suggest to us that high-top shoes appeared to have been growing in popularity. And this assessment is based largely on out American archive. We have no idea at this time if American trebds reflected footwear trends in Europe. Eyropen Dags and Anbros or much less cimmon than American photigraphic images. This seems likely, but needs to be cinfirmed.
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