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During the late-19th century, ready made clothing began to become standard, but there was still a lot of mothers who made their children's clothing or had the money to buy ordered clothing in boutique shops. As a result there was considerable diversity in children's clothing in the late-19th century. thus we see garments that rather blur the distinction between garments like kilt suits and jacketed dresses. This can often not be determined with any precession with a photograph. Readers are invited to provide any assessment of the photographs. By the end of the decade dresses for boys were going out of style and thus by the 1890s we see more kilt suits than dresses, but it can be difficult determining what the boys in some portraits are wearing. Usually it is creatively easy to see what we are looking at, but not always. There were different styles of kilt suits, but some outfits seem more like dresses than kilt suits. Kilts and skirt suits were two piece outfits with the jackets. In some cases they were three piece suits with vests which were common. We see some outfits that look like kilt suits, but were actually dresses. It is a little difficult to tell, but we see outfits that look like these suits, but were actually one-piece dresses. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that a popular dresses style for girls was jacketed dresses--dresses done with separate, but matching jackets. We can see kilt suit dresses that that look as if there is a jacket, vest, and skirt/kilt, but these were just stylistic features and not really actual kilt suit garments. We see these kilt suit styled dresses commonly in the 1870s and 80s. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). While dresses we think that that they were mostly worn by boys, we think some girls may have worn them, but not nearly as commonly as boys. This is something we are looking into. We are not sure about the age conventions. It may have been the same as for actual kilt suits, but we are not yet sure about this. They tended to be fussy styles with a combination of buttons, pleats jacketed styling and other feature. Some were obviously drsses. Others you have to look more closely to tell that they were not kilt suits. A good example is Roy Hammomd in 1881. Some had low waistlines. An example is the dress worn by Maurice Frost about 1880.
During the late-19th century, ready made clothing began to become standard, but there was still a lot of mothers who made their children's clothing or had the money to buy ordered clothing in boutique shops. As a result there was considerable diversity in children's clothing in the late-19th century. Thus we see garments that rather blur the distinction between garments like kilt suits and jacketed dresses. This diversity began to decline with the rise of ready made.
The type of garment can often not be determined with any precession with a photograph. Readers are invited to provide any assessment of the photographs. By the end of the decade dresses for boys were going out of style and thus by the 1890s we see more kilt suits than dresses, but it can be difficult determining what the boys in some portraits are wearing. Usually it is reatively easy to see what we are looking at, but not always. This is especially the case when deling with ready-made garments.
There were different styles of most can be readuly identified as kilrt suits. but some outfits seem more like dresses than kilt suits. Kilts and skirt suits were two piece outfits with the jackets. In some cases they were three piece suits with vests which were common. We see some outfits that look like kilt suits, but were actually dresses. It is a little difficult to tell, but we see outfits that look like these suits, but were actually one-piece dresses. The jackets may not be rel jckets, but sinply made to look like one. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that a popular dresses style for girls was jacketed dresses--dresses done with separate, but matching jackets. We can see kilt suit dresses that that look as if there is a jacket, vest, and skirt/kilt, but these were just stylistic features and not really actual kilt suit garments.
We see these kilt suit styled dresses commonly in the 1870s and 80s. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). While dresses we think that that they were mostly worn by boys, we think some girls may have worn them, but not nearly as commonly as boys. This is something we are looking into. We are not sure about the age conventions. It may have been the same as for actual kilt suits, but we are not yet sure about this. They tended to be fussy styles with a combination of buttons, pleats jacketed styling and other feature. Some were obviously drsses. Others you have to look more closely to tell that they were not kilt suits. A good example is Roy Hammomd in 1881. Some had low waistlines. An example is the dress worn by Maurice Frost about 1880. The convention iof yunger boys wearung dresses weaken in the 1890s and begun to dsaooear after the turn-of-the century. We see some of the kilt-suit styled dresses in the 1890s, but have not yet fiund any from the 1900s-decade.
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