CHILD’S ANGARKHA Silk, woven with metal-wrapped thread, and trimmed with silk North India Mid 19th century IS.214-1953 Given by Miss E. Cobbe Courtly children’s clothes were no less lavish than adult garments, as this child-sized angarkha, or robe, demonstrates. Generally children were dressed in the same kinds of clothing as adults, from angarkhas to saris. In some regions, girls and boys wore the same garments until puberty, when the girls began to wear more feminine garments. [01/08/2017]