Children's Fashion
Girls' fashion for this time period imitated older women of the same period. Girls wore dresses of knee length, with trimmings at the hem such as lace and embroidery similar to women's lingerie dresses. Normally, black shoes and woolen stockings went with the dress. Their hair was generally worn long and curly with decorations of ribbon. For play, bloomers and woolen jerseys were acceptable.
A new attempt was made to design garments that are more suitable for playing by designing girls' dresses with short sleeves.
Young boys found comfort in Russian style blouses.
Fashionable clothing for boys included sailor suits, consisting of a shirt with a sailor collar and trousers or knickerbockers. For automobiling, boys wore a duster with knickerbockers, a flat cap, and goggles.
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Even tiny girls were dressed in large hats, 1900
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Two French boys wearing knickerbockers, 1900
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Girls' fashions for August 1901
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Small boy in a sailor suit, 1909
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