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The 1850s images look somewhat mote like tunics than shirts. Se notive a wide ranhe of collars. White collars were very popular. They varied in size and type. Sone we relative narrow, others qyiute wide. The boy here looks to be wearing a scalloped white collar (figure 1). We also see lace collars. The outfit the boy here wore has aarge lace collar (figure 1). Available images show different sleeve length. The most common style seems to be long sleeves with shirt-like sleeves. We also see sleeves cut at the elbow with buffed up blouse sleeves. A good example here is George Walter Oakley. This is one of the more fashionable tunics we have noted and interestingly the boy lived on the Western frontier. He has a small ruffled collar and a tunic with half sleeves. Another good example is an unidentified boy. His tunic had a very large belt buckle. Most boys wore their tunics with belts. And this image shows the pants better thn most portraits. Most of the photogrphs we have found show boys wearing long pants with these tunics, but fashion plates often show bloomer knickers. The detinction is the length and front buttoning. We note an unidentified boy, we think in the 1850s, wearing a tunic suit with matching long pants.
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