Once your child has reached the age of three you might want to add to her wardrobe. A little lassie is best dressed in a bodice-skirt combination called an Overdress that is similiar to the adult Irish dress. This keeps you from having to you fight to keep her skirt from slipping down. The dress's generous hem is trimmed with grosgrain ribbon and you can choose from navy, lt blue, wine, hunter green, rose, brown and kelly green twill, or linen in banana, navy, heather lavender, red, seaspray, wedgewood blue, gray mist, willow green, wood rose, or khaki. Under this is worn the long chemise.
Bloomers are a good option for the active child.
An older child can wear a seperate bodice and skirt with a long or short chemise. The children's bodices are fully reversable and are grommeted at the shoulders for easy adjustment, and are available in the same fabrics as the adult bodices. Tunics were the basic garment worn during medieval times. They can be made in different lengths and worn layered or they can be worn alone. Boys would wear them hip,knee or calf length over a pair of long breeches.