Figure 1.--This boy is Harry W. Sawyer who looks to be 6-7 years old. He may have tucked in his tunic skirt, but he may be wearing a Russian blouse with matching bloomervknickers. Russian blouse tunics has=d the same style tops as Russian blouses. The photograph was probably taken in the 1900s. It was taken near Sabago, Maine,

We notice blouses styles just like tunic tops. We think that some boys may have worn then tucked into their pants. This was not possible for tunics cut at knee length. It was, howevr, possible for short-cut tunics. And many tunics worn during the mid-19th century were relatively short. Also some tunics may have been cut short as boys grew older and worn like blouses. Some boys as they got older may have not wanted to wear tunics. We do not yet have any confirmation of this in the written record. we only have the photographic record to go on, but it seems to show boys wearing blouses that look very much like tunic tops. The ages involved seem similar to the ages at which boys wore tuics, perhaps at the upper end of the range. This seems quite common in the early-20th century, especially with Russian blouses.

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