That is why earlier on the boy to wear a beautiful dress. And I did not know ... Bashny.Net

Looking through the children's portraits and photographs of a bygone era, it is very difficult to determine the sex of the child depicted. And all because of the fact that many young boys wore dresses in the past century. In this article we decided to tell whence came into this strange by today's standards, the tradition.

The fact that in the past, the dress is not perceived as an indication of the gender differences. If you saw a boy in a dress, it just means that it is in the care of the mother. When connected to the education of the father or the teacher, then the kid wore pants or breeches ... By the way, often specially organized holiday was timed to coincide with this event.

According to many historians, another reason why the boys wore dresses, was that because it is much easier to celebrate the natural need. If you still want to learn to distinguish between boys and girls in old portraits, then pay attention to the style of dress and hair of children. boys clothes were more colorful and most buttons located on the front. Under the dresses worn trousers.

As for the hair, the girls wore parted in the middle and combed to one side or the boys cut their bangs. Interestingly, sometimes rambunctious little boy could put a dress as punishment ...

The centuries-old tradition of literally disappeared for 10 years. It was promoted by several factors: the doctrine of Freud, who told the world that children should not be considered asexual beings, public education (children equalized in everything, including in school uniform), advertising campaigns imposed on people the differences between boys and girls
not to be unfounded, we suggest you look at a few pictures and children's portraits. For example, these portraits you can see Franklin Roosevelt, and the future of the Portuguese monarch Manuel II. B>





Empress Maria Fedorovna and her son Nicholas II. B>





Flemish boy in a dress, 1625. B>





Tsarevich Alexei. B>





Prince Gaston. B>





Consuelo Vanderbilt and his sons, 1899





As you can see, in the olden days to wear a dress to the boy was quite commonplace.



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