. . "CHILD\u2019S ANGARKHA\nSilk, woven with metal-wrapped thread, and trimmed with silk\nNorth India\nMid 19th century\nIS.214-1953\nGiven by Miss E. Cobbe\n\nCourtly children\u2019s 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]"@en . .