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Boys in dresses

Boy’s coatdress, early 1830s, front view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/96424
Same child’s coatdress, back view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/96424
Detail of the same garment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/96424
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Boy’s coatdress, early 1830s, front view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/96424

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In Europe and North America, boys often wore dresses in early childhood and changed to trousers at about four to eight years old. The practice continued into the first decades of the twentieth century.