Figure 1.--This boy was Claude, but we do not have his last name. We wears a white pleted kilt or skirt with a white blouse nd white floppy bow but with black long stockings. He was 3 years old. The cabinet portrait is not dted, but was probably taken in the 1890s. The studio was Wallace in Manchester, New Hapshire.

American Kilt Suits Garments: The Kilt--Colors and Patterns

We even see a few white kilts, but they were not very common at all. While colors are virtually impossible to identify, we can usually identify white kilts. We might misidentify very light pastels, but we do not think that such light colors were common for boys. Thus we are fairly confident that the kilt suit outfits that look tgo be white in the photographic record ctually were white. The number of hilte kilts we have found are very small. We have found a few complete white kilt suits. Boys might wear white blouses with white kilts instead of a white jacket. A white kiltsuit would have been for summer wear and of course for summer wear a blouse would do nicely. And of course mother might add a white floppy bow to complete an elegant touch. What we do not see is white long stockings with these white kilt outfits.








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