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30-12-14, 12:38
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The riding crop was often used in paintings and photos to denote a boy before he's breached. Boys were usually breached at age 4. Breaching carried on until about 1900 (as a ceremony) particularly amongst the middle and upper classes.
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30-12-14, 12:45
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My father was born in 1920 into a working class family and whilst he wasn't 'officially' breached, he did go through a connected ceremony in that his mother wouldn't cut his hair (golden ringlets, according to him) until he first went to school (aged 5) so he looked like a girl, except for wearing short trousers, until then. The hair cutting involved the attendance of all the family and a large pair of scissors wielded by his mother!
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30-12-14, 13:56
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