Re: Our Ancestors #5

[foggyjano]

I would love to know why boys were dressed up in dresses in the old days, was it cos they were short of money and had to pass down clothes..lol....

[bearkat]

I would love to know why boys were dressed up in dresses in the old days, was it cos they were short of money and had to pass down clothes..lol....

There's some interesting information on this site:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/collections/costume/boys/boys_trousers/index.html

[rancegal]

Very interesting site. If you think about it, the move to putting boys in trousers (and romper suits when they were babies) coincided with the invention of rubber waterproof pants.
   I've got some old photos of my uncle wearing 'frocks' as boys' dresses were commonly called. Of course, they didn't think it out of the ordinary, and it certainly had nothing to do with hand-me-downs; after all, what if the older children were boys as well! Somewhere I read a quote from a letter written by a young Victorian woman who was horrified to find her new husband wore nightshirts and set to work to sew him some 'respectable nightgowns'
     It's only because the use of these names has changed that they mean something else to us.
     BTW,  my son-in-law's Hindu family don't cut a little boy's hair until just after his 1st or 2nd birthday and then it involves a big ceremony in which his whole head is shorn. The hair must not fall to the floor and has to be kept (for reasons I never got to the bottom of). It marks a transition from the weakness and dependency of babyhood to the start of boyhood.
   

[alftabor]

Grandmother Emily Tabor nee Millman
Great grand mother Emily Sarah Tabor nee Bassett

[Elliebob]

Amazing - what a treasure alf.  I only have the one photo of me with the only grandmother I knew.  I was only 5 months old at the time!

I am taking as many pics as possible of our family get togethers so that the family archive will pass around as far as possible in future!!

Ellen

[alftabor]

After the great grand parents that I have shown I can go back one more generation to
My great great grandfather William Henry Tabor and My great great grandmother Elizabeth Tabor Nee Matthews.

[alftabor]

This group of serious Gents stare down on me in my Computer room
From left:Alfred Ernest,Henry George,Grandfather William Charles, William Junior.
Front from left:Jack,Frederick Arthur,Charles James.

[PaulaToo]

They might look serious, alftabor, but they look a 'decent bunch of chaps' all the same.
Nice photo.

[alftabor]

Here is a picture of the Heroine of my Family
Great Aunt Louie who got a gong while serving in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service at Ypres in the Great War