Children's Fashion
Both boys and girls wore skirts from the time they could walk until they reached age 5 or 6. Very small girls wore their skirts just below knee-length over pantalettes. Skirts were longer as girls grew up until they reached floor length at coming-out (in their later teens). Older girls wore hoops to hold out their skirts. Young girls wore washable pinafores over their dresses for work and play to keep them clean, as typified by the eponymous heroine of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, and her Alice in Wonderland dress .
Boys wore simple jackets and trousers.
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Alice Liddell, 1860
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Girls in pinafores, 1860–62
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Germany, 1861
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Boy, 1867
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English boy, 1869
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