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American boys wore tunics troughout the 19th century. We have very little information on the early-19th century. Age 3 years was the age that many amilies breeched boys, so there may have been some boys wearing tunics. We believe that dresses were much more common. But wihout photigraphy we justb do not know a great deal. Photography was ininvnted in France (1839). It veryb quickly spread to America and bybthe mid-40s we begin tom see substantial numbers of images. We see some images of boys wearing tunics, but not huge numbers. This changed after the turn-of-the 20th century and we see a large numberr of tunic images. We know much more about the mid-19th and early 20th centuries because photograohy by that time was so common. We are still assessing the age range of mid-19th century tunics. At the turn-of-the 20th century we notice quite a number of boys who were 3 years old or looked about 3 wearing tunic suits. We see this in the photographic record and it confirmed in the period catalogs. A good example is an uniderntified boy in 1908. We note Ellis Gray Holden wearing a sailor tunic at age 3 in 1908. We see 3-year old Paul Burnham Dailey in 1914 wearing a saili-styled tuniuc suit. We think that by the 1920s that it was realtively rate to see school-age boys wearing tunic suits.
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