So, was randomly bouncing around the linkiverse of the Internets, and ended up on the Wikipedia Article of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
And did a double take on this rather unusual picture of the man, as a child:
The caption described the picture as "A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, 2 years old"
Which led me to look up the Wikipedia article on "breeching"
Apparently it was a practice from the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century that little boys, as well as girls, wore dresses.
When they got old enough (the age varied between two and eight), they'd undergo a "breeching", which was the occasion when a boy first put on breeches, or trousers.
The reason apparently had practical roots, first, because trousers at those times could be a bit complicated, and since little kids grew so fast, dealing with skirts meant less need to replace clothes, with skirts being more yielding, in that aspect, than fitted trousers.
I had no idea of this practice. Makes me wonder what else I don't know about how things were done in the past.
And did a double take on this rather unusual picture of the man, as a child:
The caption described the picture as "A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, 2 years old"
Which led me to look up the Wikipedia article on "breeching"
Apparently it was a practice from the mid-16th century until the late 19th or early 20th century that little boys, as well as girls, wore dresses.
When they got old enough (the age varied between two and eight), they'd undergo a "breeching", which was the occasion when a boy first put on breeches, or trousers.
The reason apparently had practical roots, first, because trousers at those times could be a bit complicated, and since little kids grew so fast, dealing with skirts meant less need to replace clothes, with skirts being more yielding, in that aspect, than fitted trousers.
I had no idea of this practice. Makes me wonder what else I don't know about how things were done in the past.
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