worn with a wide turn-over collar. Portrait of John C. Calhoun in a sheer white formal cravat, dark coat, and fur-collared or lined overcoat, 1834. Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen shows the depth and breadth of fashionable coat collars, 1836. A gentleman of the Wilkes Family, 1838–40, wears a dark cravat. His tall coat collar is notched and spreads onto his shoulders. The sleeve has just a hint of fullness at the sleeve head. Zoo proprietor Edward Cross wears a red and black patterned waistcoat with brown trousers and a black tailcoat, cravat, and top hat, 1838. Children's fashion In this period, small boys wore sashed tunics over trousers, sometimes with a round-collared shirt underneath. By the 1830s the skeleton suit had fallen out of fashion. Older boys wore short jackets and trousers with round-collared shirts. Girls wore simplified versions of women's fashion. Photographs See also Victorian fashion Notes References Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837–1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, (full text available online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collections) Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS Takeda, Sharon Sadako, and Kaye Durland Spilker: Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700 - 1915, LACMA/Prestel USA 2010, Tortora, Phyllis and Keith Eubank: Survey of Historic Costume, second edition, Fairchild 1994 Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770–1870, Laura Ashley Press, External links 1830s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries The Romantic Era: Fashions 1825-1845 1840s Men's Fashions – c. 1840 Men's Fashion Photos (Daguerreotypes) with Annotations Men's fashion plates of the 1830s at Victoriana.com 1830s Fashions in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database History of clothing (Western fashion)