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Offline AngelaR

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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #108 on: Saturday 16 November 13 13:42 GMT (UK) »
This is a really helpful thread! Thanks for starting it GS  :)

I'm notoriously unobservant, so this discussion is helping me highlight features in my (very sparse) collection of old photos...

One of the things I'd not thought of is mourning clothes - that may help date a couple of mine....

I'm not sure if someone has already answered this elsewhere, but was there a standard age for 'breeching' boys?
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Especially looking for - Sealey, Rogers, Cannings, Box, Sheppard in Wiltshire; Virgin, Slade, Abbott, Saint, Harper, Silverthorn in Somerset; and Virgin, Tarr, Beer in Devon

And most especially the origins of William Cannings,  a Baptist, born abt 1791 in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire

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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #109 on: Saturday 16 November 13 13:52 GMT (UK) »
Maggie's photo reminds me of this one -  1911
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Especially looking for - Sealey, Rogers, Cannings, Box, Sheppard in Wiltshire; Virgin, Slade, Abbott, Saint, Harper, Silverthorn in Somerset; and Virgin, Tarr, Beer in Devon

And most especially the origins of William Cannings,  a Baptist, born abt 1791 in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire

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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #110 on: Saturday 16 November 13 13:54 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #111 on: Saturday 16 November 13 13:54 GMT (UK) »
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I'm not sure if someone has already answered this elsewhere, but was there a standard age for 'breeching' boys?

According to wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeching_(boys) it could be anytime between the ages of 2 and 8.

They had to be toilet trained and also have mastered the art of undoing the rather complicated fastenings of early breeches and trousers.

That's another super photo Angela.
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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #112 on: Saturday 16 November 13 13:57 GMT (UK) »
Just to show how much things have changed here's my mum and my American granddaughter both aged 12/13.  Mum in 1923, my granddaughter in 2010.

Been asked to remove the photo as apparently there is a rule about not putting up photos of living people (my granddaughter) although I've done it in the past without any comment.
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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #113 on: Saturday 16 November 13 14:09 GMT (UK) »
What a difference in nearly 90 years Lizzie.  Its only when you see pictures posted side by side like this that you fully appreciates how great the changes in clothing and attitude have been.  You have a very pretty granddaughter  :).
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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #114 on: Saturday 16 November 13 14:27 GMT (UK) »
My granddaughter was trying to look "grown-up".  Now she's 16 she dresses much more casually in jeans and tops. ;D

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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #115 on: Saturday 16 November 13 14:42 GMT (UK) »
A different style
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Re: Children's clothing
« Reply #116 on: Saturday 16 November 13 15:24 GMT (UK) »
Somewhere there is a photo of my father wearing his first pair of trousers after he was 'breeched' and he was about five years old, so the photo must have been taken in 1915 or 1916.  With all the problems of washing woollen clothing in those days you can understand why they wanted the boys toilet-trained and able to deal with buttons before putting them in trousers!
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