Boys Should Wear Blue, Girls Should Wear Pink....
It turns out that the way we dress babies and young children today is an extremely new concept.
Up until the 1950's all children, whether boys or girls, were dressed exactly the same.
For hundreds of years, there was no desire to put children in gender specific clothing.
Most kid's wore all white dresses...yes...even the boys.
So...what happened?
It started in the 50's, when parents started to dress boys like their fathers and girls like their mothers.
Still, even then, gender neutral clothing was widely used and quite popular.
It was the 1980's that changed the rules forever.
Suddenly, the only clothes available were either for "girls" or "boys".
It's kind of cute to see these little boys in dresses.
Like other young boys of his era, Franklin Roosevelt wears a dress. This studio portrait was likely taken in New York in 1884.
In the Victorian era, a boy (photographed in 1870) wears a pleated skirt and high button baby boots and poses with ornate millinery.
Sister and brother, circa 1905, wear traditional white dresses in lengths appropriate to their ages.
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