Figure 1.--This divided back AZO post card portrait shows 8 year old Wilford holding hands wiuth year old girl Dorothy at a wedding. The back reads, "Last June Mr Taylor's sister Catherine was married. Dorothy was ring bearer and this is her with the basket she carried the ring in and her dress outfit. She did Fine. The other is Wilford. Taken July Age 8 and 5 years." The AZO stamp box with four triagles up date the porrait to 1904-18.

We see fewer 8 years olds wearing tunics, but we do see a few. The catalogs indicate that tunics were offered for 8 years olds, but it was on the upper limits of the sizing. We note an unidentified newsper advertisement offereing a wide variety of tunic suits which they call bloomer suits for boys up to age 8. This was fairly common in the 1900s. We notice fewer offerings of tunic suits for 8 year old by the 1910s. One tunic suit called a sailor blouse suit was offered in sizes up to 8s. Montgomery Wards had them in two styles in 1914. Se have found only a few examples in the photographic record of 8 year old boys actually wearing them. We note one unidentified American boy who had a white tunic suit for formal occassion.

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