Figure 1.-- Here we see th kids all dresed up. The dealer thought the pohotigraph was taken as thery were header for church. This seems likely. t is alslo interesting as to how widespread photography was. Given the home in the background, the family was clearly not a overly well-to-do and we think a rural family. The children look to be about 1-10 years old.< Notice the chikdren areball wearing long-stockings. The photograph is undated, but was probably taken in the 1910s. Bitice that all of th children are wearing long stickings and on of the boys is wearing sandals.

Apparently many boys had tunic suits, but more for play or for dressing up rather than to wear to school. Many of the images e have found seem to b e the boys dressed up in tunic outfits. Suggsting that tythe tunuic was a dress uo garment. We think this may refect the fact that there are fewer images of the children at play. Agter the turn of the 20th century we have nany family snap shots, even so not all that many snapshots are candid imahes of the children at play. Maby are actually ohotographs of the children dressed up for a photograph, so the photographic record does not provide us a real true representation of just what circumstances in which the children wore tunics. For example photographs might be taken for ourings or with the children all dressed up for church. School for whatever reason was a different matter.

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