Figure 1.-- One portrait shows Curil at age 6 wearing what looks like a satin cavalier outfit with large pin-on lace collar. I'm not sure what color it was or if Vivian had a similar suit. This satin outfits is rather like Gainborough's "Blue Boy" portrait.

Oscar Wilde: Children's Clothing --Satin Suits

One portrait shows Curil at age 6 wearing what looks like a satin cavalier outfit with large pin-on lace collar. I'm not sure what color it was or if Vivian had a similar suit. This satin outfits is rather like Gainborough's "Blue Boy" portrait. They were much less common than the Little Lord Fauntleroy suits that the boys also wore. I'm not sure what the conventions were for wearing this outfit. It may have been more of a outfit worn for a costume party rather than a suit worn for formal occassions like a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. This may have been a costume designed to replicate the "Blue Boy" portrait. We are not sure what color the suit was, but suspect it may have been blue. The lace collar here appears to have been the same collar worn with some of the boys' velvet Fauntleroy suits.

Sources

Holland, Merlin. A Wilde Album.






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