Figure 1.--This anbrotype shows a boy wearing a blouse that looks more like a dress bodice. Itbwas probably taken in the late-1850s. |
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We do not yet have a good idea of the age of boys wearing blouses. We note sharp differences in the blouses worn by different aged children. We note pre-school children wearing blouses that looked more like dress blouses. Boys by the time they reached school age or perhaps a little before were wearing blouses that looked more like shirts. We think that blouses were mostly worn by pre-teen boys, but we need to archive more images before we can assess age trends. It is a little duifficult to differentiate blouses and shirts because blouses were not yey blouced. Our initial assessment is thsat boys began wearing blouses as soon as they were breeched and begn to use plants.
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