In the 19th century, boys dressed in dresses. Why? Does anyone know the answer to the question? Perhaps the answer lies in F. Yusupov’s memoirs, where he wrote: “I was wearing, my mother was expecting a daughter’s dowry and children’s sewn pink. I was disappointed and my mother to be comforted, to five years, I wore a little girl. I’m not upset, and even, in contrast, was proud of. ”