History of Children's Clothing, part 1

 

    For decades, children's clothing evolved in a very interesting way. From infancy to adolescence, people act different, so looks are changing too. Althought, clothes don't change only because of that. It also showed a children's position in society and development in childcare.

Actually children wore clothing without gender division. In the beginning,of 20th century, small boys and girls wore a tunic or a robe.  Babies wore diapers with strong stabilization, in 17th and 18th centuries, beacuse people believed that in early life arms and legs should be protected, so in future it won't be bent or misshapen. Later, it changed, so babies could move in a normal way.

When little boy started wearing pants instead of tunic it was called "breeching". Suddenly loose robe changed into pants with masculine details, for example vests. 

When girl change her clothis, it wasn't big change, because the wore mid-lenght dresses and skirts with feminine details (laces and bows) instead of long clothes.

It took many years to standarized color code: blue for boys and pink for girls. Since 1910, people started to think about colors for each gender. Then the idea with this two popular color right now, came. But in the 1939, pink was associated with Mars, as a pale shade of red, so it was for boys. Madonna wore blue and made it color for girls. In practise, both colors was used for both gender. Later, after World War II a magazine wrote about color code, and then it was normalized.

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