Take a guess. Who might this child
be?
Look through old photographs and
you’ll find young boys in dresses. Why?
White was easy to bleach, and
diapers were easier to change with dresses. Young children grow like weeds, and
dresses don’t require precise sizes as pants do.
Boys wore dresses or short skirts
until age six or seven, when they received their first haircut.
The shift toward clothing
associated with men―pants―came in the early twentieth century. Another shift
occurred with the women’s liberation movement; girls started wearing pants.
Who is the child? A future
president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1884.
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