Renoir’s A Girl with a Watering Can, 1876 shows an adorable little girl in a simple blue dress embellished with lace. I love her matching blue boots and her lacy bloomers sticking out from under her dress.
Sleeveless over-dresses with distinctive W-shaped necklines, such as the one worn in Renoir’s 1864 portrait of Mademoiselle Romaine Lancaux, were considered especially stylish for girls in the mid-1860s.