Figure 1.--Here we see unidentified children about 4-8 years old. The older sister wears a plain dress with matching long stockings. Her older brother wears a black jacket and kilt which seems to have been the standard outfit in the 1860s. What we do not fully understand is what look likes colorful long stockings. The studio mwas G.R. Lavis with studios in London and Eastbourne.

The CDVs popular in the 1860s show us examples of English boys wearing kilts. We do not have enough English images at this point to validly assess English kilt age trends. So far we see boys wearing kilts from about 4-10 years old. Here we ae just guesing the ages based on how old the boys look in the portraits. Not very many indicate the age of the boys photographed. We note an unidetified boy in a portrait with his sister (figure 1). The boy looks to be about 4 years old. He wears a black jacket and kilt which seems to have been the tandard outfit in the 1860s. The Hunington boy on the previous page looks to be about 10 years of age. We suspect that some older boys also wore kilts, but do not yet have actual examples to confirm it. The examples we have found so far are all boys wearing military-styled black jackets with their kilts.

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