*** historical clothing : Roy Hammond








Roy Hammond (United States, 1881)

kilt suits
Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait shows Illinois boy Roy Hammond wearing what looks like a light-colored summer kilt suit dress in 1881. The dress is detiled with buttons and stripes. Notice the Eton like collar with scalloped edges. It could be a kilt suit, but looks more like a dress with kilt suit styling to us. The kilt suit was a very popular style for younger boys at the time. Mother may have thought that Roy was too young for a proper kilt suit which was a kind of transition garment between dresses and breeching with pants.

This cabinet card portrait shows Illinois boy Roy Hammond wearing what looks like a light-colored summer kilt suit dress in 1881. The dress is detiled with buttons and stripes. Notice the Eton like collar with scalloped edges. It could be a kilt suit, but looks more like a dress with kilt suit styling to us. The kilt suit was a very popular style for younger boys at the time. Mother may have thought that Roy was too young for a proper kilt suit which was a kind of transition garment between dresses and breeching with pants. The kilt skirt has more kilt styling that many kilt shorts worn with kilt suits. Also motice the stripped long stockings, a very popular style in the 1870s and also commonly worn in the early 80s. There is a printed date of 1881 on the back of the card. Roy looks to be about 3 years, perhaps 4 years old. The studio looks like S.M. Adams in Elgin, Illinois.







HBC






Navigate Related HBC Pges
[Return to the Dress styles]
[Ringlet curls] [Lace collars] [Eton collar] [Floppy bows] [Fauntleroy blouses] [Fauntleroy suits] [Dresses] [Kilt suits] [Knee pants] [Long stockings]



Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Return to the Main ordinary H biographies page]
[Return to the Main ordinary biography page]
[About Us]
[Introduction] [Activities] [Biographies] [Chronology] [Clothing styles] [Countries] [Girls] [Theatricals] [Topics]
[Bibliographies] [Contributions] [FAQs] [Glossaries] [Images] [Links] [Registration] [Tools]
[Boys' Clothing Home]





Created: 7:20 PM 10/10/2017
Last updated: 7:20 PM 10/10/2017