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We see some tunics That are a little difficult to assess, primarily because of the way that the boy is posed, so that we can not clearly see the tunic. Sometimes is is the quality of the images. Other times the bow or neckwear cover up the tunics. More commonly, however, it is that we do not get a good look at the tunic. In other cases ythey vare unusual syles thatwe do not know how to describe. For the most part we are talking aboiyr dressy or formal tunics. We archive the iamges here, hoping that readers may have some insights.
Here we gave a Pennsylvania family, we think grandmother with her three grand children, two boy and a girl who look to be about 5-11 years old. The portrait is undated, but we would guess was roughly dated to about 1910. The yonger boy wears an outfit that must be a tunIc suit, although the tunic skirt is difficult to make out. The bneck is covered with a gleaming white detachable Eton collar. We see what looks like staps coming down from the shoulders wuth large whte buttons, but we are not sure if these are real straps or part of the tunic top design. Much of the tunic top is covered up by the bow, but notice it is not tied up in a big floppy bow as was the style in the late-19th cebntury. The tunic and Amatching bloomer knickers are striped. He wears long black stockings and strap shoes, completed with shoe bows. His sister sports a large white hair bow and and locket with a white dress looking rather like a boy's tunic, complete with the black belt often worn with tunics. She does not wear stockings, but if a little iolder probably would have. For some reason she sports a matching white parasol. Their older brother wears a striped shirt waist and snall collar, but still probably a detachable collar with a narrow necktie. A reader writes, "I don't know if you really can say it is a tunic suit or a blouse suit from the image." Our reader is correct, the way the boy is posed and the untied bow make it impossible to see which is why we have placed in in the unidentified category. , There are two reasons we think he is wearing a tunic. First, we have never seen a blouse styled like what we can see here--especially the strsps. Second, most of the boys wearing these bloomer knickers wire tunics. We do not see them with blouses.
We note a sudio cabinet card portrait of three unidentified children who look to be about 2-6 yers old. Given that they are close in age, the boy may even be age 7. Usually three children are not just separated by 2 years. The girls have hair boys which are strongly associated with t he 1910s. As a result and because of the card mount style we think the portrait was probably taken about 1910. he girls both wear similar white dresses. The boy's tunic is unlike any one we have seen before. There is a very large collar with a back flap. There are buttons on the front, but they are not meant to close the front. It looks like it is an open tunic, but that looks ro be an aaffect. What looks like the outer part has vertical stripes. What looks llke the inner part has a cheveron pattern. The yunic looks to be very bong, falling below theknees, unusual for tunics. The studio was Wm. H. Schmdt in Chicaco.
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