Introduction: is childhood disappearing? -- The dynastic child -- Marital portraits and paintings of children in seventeenth-century Dutch art -- The public child: portraying parental power and wealth -- Children's clothes in colonial America, 1609-1800 -- Children's clothes in the United States, 1800-1860 -- Children's clothes in nineteenth-century England -- Middle-class and other children: children's clothes in the United States, 1860-1918 -- Establishing societal standards: children's clothes between 1918 and 1950 -- Conformity and social mobility: children's clothes between 1950 and 1965 -- Challenging gender boundaries: children's clothes between 1965 and 1980 -- Themes of success and delight: children's clothes in the 1980s and 1990s -- Conclusion: children's clothes and depiction of children as socio-cultural constructs
