Figure 1.--This Australian minature painting is unidentified. An E-bay seller describes this as a 19th century image. The colored Peter Pan collar and smocking suggests to HBC that this may be an early 20th century blouse. |
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We have very limited information on Australian boys' blouses at this time. We believe that styles were quite similar to those worn in England. Boys commonly wore
blouses in the late 19th century, sometimes quite fancy ones. Shiorts became more common in the 20ty century. Some boys still wore blouses in the 20th century,
especially the early 20th century. Fancy Fauntleroy collars gradually were replaced with plainer styles like the Peter Pan collar.
This Australian minature painting is unidentified. An E-bay seller describes this as a 19th century image. The colored Peter Pan collar and smocking suggests to HBC that this may be an early 20th century blouse. The HBC seller assures us that it is 19th century. She writes, "Well I guess the reason I believe that it is 19th century is style, material, frame and the estate it came from. I should have included that the nails that were left are a dead give away".
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