Figure 1.--This unidentified American boy looks to about 2 1/2 years old. This is the age that nmany boys began wearing tunic suits in the early-20th century. |
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Many catalogs specified 2 1/2 years as the beginning of the age range for tunic suits. Tunic suits were popular outfits for American pre-school boys beginning about age 2 or 2 1/2. Some families dressed all their pre-school boys in tunic suits. The sizes indicated by catalog stores provide a fairly definite age range. We notice tunics suits made in size 2s, often 2 1/2. Thuis is the youngest we have noticed for these outfits. A good example is a variety of tunic suits offered by Montgomery Ward in 1914. The age range was 2 1/2 to 7 years. An even more common range was 2 1/2 to 8 years in the 1900s. This wide age range gradually became less favored because many 8-year olds who were in school did not want to wear the same styles 2 and 3 year olds were wearing. Rather they preferred the styles being worn by the older boys. This was a common beginning age for these suits. Almost all tunic suits we have noted were done in size ranges beginning at 2 or 2 1/2 years. Some began with size 3, but the size conventioin was much more common. Even when tunic suits began to go out of style in the late 1910s and early 20s, we still see them being done in size 2s.
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