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Women wore dresses at or below the anklels depending on the decade. Children might wear lower cut dresses, depending on their ages, but almost never cut below the ankles. We think in many cases what is at play here is mothers buying a large size for children to grow into. This was surely the case for boys' knee pant and for the skirts on girls' dresses. This could be partially true, but then there should be portraits of the older boys with shorter kilts that they had grown into, and we do not see this in the photographic record, although we are still assessing this as well. We are looking into whether these long kilts changed over time this would suggest actual fashion impacts as opposed to mothers buying large sizes as opposed to adopting fashionable styles.
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