Figure 1.--These American boys are weaaring identical sailor tunics. The photograph was probably taken about 1910.
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Figure 1.--These American boys are weaaring identical sailor tunics. The photograph was probably taken about 1910. |
Twins most commonly have been dressed alike. Usually this style was for twin brothers or twin sisters. However, in many cases fraternal brother and sister twins were dressed alike. This appears to have been a popular fashion dating back to earliest available photographic images. Dressing twins alike is still a common fashion today, although sometimes as they get older they like to dress differently.
HBC believes that in the 19th century that it was quite common to dress twins in identical outfits. Many parents still like to dress their younger twins in identical outfits, but now less commonly do so once they have reached school age.
Twins have been outfitted in a large range of identical oufits.
Today it is most commom to dress frateranal brother/sister twins in boyish styled clothing when dressing them alike. In the 19th and early 20th centurt, girls did not wear boys' fashions as they do now. In fact, when dressing twins alike it was common to outfit them in dresses. This was a reflection of the time as younger boys in the 19th cerntury common wore dresses just like those of their sisters.
Tunic syuits were very popular for younger boys at the turn of the century. These suits were widely worn in Europe, but they were especially popular in America. Various styles were worn, including Russian blouses, Buster Brown suits, and sailor tunics. The most common were the sailor tunics.
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