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What did children in the past wear?

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What did children in the past wear? What clothing nightmares did they have to endure?! Well look no further and take a trip back into the clothing faux pas of the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You won't find anything like these garments in Pumpkin Patch! Outfits were sometimes stiff and starchy mini versions of adult clothing: Ref: B0150, Grainger family portrait, c. 1890s, North Auckland Research Centre At other points in time, it was all bows, lace and puff sleeves.....: Ref: 31-WP18, portrait of the Archdale-Taylor family, c.1914, Sir George Grey Special Collections Ref: 31-55861, Misses Halls, 1909, Sir George Grey Special Collection s