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Age was a major factor in wearing kilt suits. Boys at age 5 years still spent most of their time at home. Age 5 years was the last age that this was the case. This is important because boys began school at 6 years of age. And we know from school portraits that boys did not begin school dressed in kilt suits. Many boys wore suits, but not kilt suits. Kindergartens were just appearing in the 1890s. And pre-schools did not exist. Boys would not have begun school wearing a kilt suit. Although we are not entirely sure that one breeched, boys imediately stopped wearing kilt suits. But at age 5 years they were not yet in school. So it is the last age that we see really large number of boys wearing kilt suits or other skirted garments. That does not nean that all boys were breeched at age 6 years. But it does mean that virtually all boys attending school were. We assumed that they once breeched for school that they no longer wore kilt suits and other sirted garments. We wonder, however, if a few thrifty moms might have brought out the kilt suits for special occasions for a while. We can not conform that this occurred, but it is a possibility. And of course boys who did not begin school at vage 6 years or those boys schooled at home might have been breeched later than other boys.
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