Muffs and bonnets would have been very much in keeping with the costumes of young gentlemen who wore dresses and whose hair was kept in beautiful long curls tied with ribbons and bows. Surprisingly, the photographic record of boys wearing muffs and bonnets seems quite sparse, but this probably partly reflects the fact that photographs of boys in muffs and bonnets are likely to have been interpreted to be girls. Traditionally, of course, muffs and bonnets have been widely worn by girls, but there is substantial evidence that boys also wore muffs and bonnets.