Civil War Era Children's Fashions - April 1860 Peterson's Magazine

Civil War Era Children's Fashions - April 1860 Peterson's Magazine

Children's Fashions

Fig 1 - Dress for a little girl of plaid summer silk. - The skirt is trimmed with five flounces. Raphael body, gathered into the waist in front, and worn over a white plaited spencer. The sleeves are made with one puff and a deep ruffle, and worn over a puffed white muslin sleeve. Round straw hat, trimmed with black velvet and a long black ostrich feather.

Fig 2 - Dress for a little boy of yellow Pique or Marseilles. - The skirt is made short, and trimmed with a broad band of white pique, above which is a row of red vandyked braid. The pocket is also trimmed with the red braid. The body or skirt is of white muslin, with long, full sleeves. Over this body is a Zouave jacket profusely trimmed with red vandyked braid. Straw hat trimmed with white and red cock's plumes, and white and red plaid ribbon.