To our modern eyes, a little girl’s clothes were much like her mother’s, but people at the time were sensitive to the many differences between children’s clothes and adult clothes.
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Topic | Clothing, Textile, Fashion, Costume |
Era | Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877 |