Dating baby clothes- part 1

[acceber]

I have two items I will post separately. I’m going to be a new nana this September to a beautiful baby boy, so of course I had to find some vintage clothes for pictures. lol This is entirely hand sewn. I got all of this stuff from an estate sale, so I think it was all for the same baby so possibly the same age.

 

[Jonathan]

Baby clothes are so hard to date. At the museum, we only consider baby clothes that come in as donations if they are 'through the roof spectacular' , which is rare (and has only happened once - with a whitework Victorian Christening gown with an 6 foot skirt ), or positively dated.

 

[acceber]

I bet that christening gown was spectacular!