Figure 1.-- This CDV depicts an unidentified boy who looks to be about 3 years old. He has long, tightly formed ringlet. He wears a plaid dress, we think with a narrow ribbon bow. It is difficult to tell as the ribbon is also plaid. THe portrait is undated, but we would guess the 1870s. The late-60s is possible, but the early-70s is more likely, especilly as the CDV format was less common in the 80s. The white stockings suggest the60s or early-7-s.The studio was W.M. Wires in Lynn, Massachusettes.

We note boys not yet breeched wearing various skirted garments, especially dresses and kilt suits. A good example is an unidentified Lynn, Machachusettes boy wearing a plaid dress (figure 1). Plaid dresses were popular for boys because the plaid pattern they had a kilt look about it. The portrait is undated, but as it is a CDV, we ould guess it was taken in the 1870s. He looks to be about 3-years old. We also see Highland kilt outfits, although they were not as common as kilt suits. We notice Robert Stanley Mitcheson. about 1870 wearing a Highland kilt outfit with ringlet curls. Tht was not so common in America. The photograph is by the Manchesten Bros., Providence, Rhode Island. I believe that this is a boy. The fact that the child has a book is one clue that he is a boy. He also can be identified because he is wearing a suit jacket. And girls did not wear kilts. On the previous page is an unidentified Providence boy, probably from the late 1860s or early 70s wearing a velvet kilt suit.

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