Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified Belgian brother and sister with ringlet curls. The portrait is undated, but was probably taken about 1910. Their curls are done identically. That is something we do notoften see in America. The only diffrence we see is that the girl's ringlets are slightly longer. They look to be avout 6-8 years old. The girl wears a white dress with a locket. The boy wears a Fauntleroy velvet suit with an open lace collar. The studio was Ferdinand Buyle in Brussels.

We notice both Belgian boys and girls wearing ringlet curls. A Belgian sourxe calls riglets curls ' Anglaiss coiffure ' meaning English hair style. Of course far more girls had their hair done in ringlets, but we see some boys as well. Our Belgian archive, especially our 19th century achchive, is not large enough to be able to establish prevalence or any chronological trends with any surity. Nor do we have enough images to be able to comment on ringlet styles. Ringlets appear to have been less common than in America, but on a par with France, at least among the Waloon family. We are also unsure as to how many of the children with long hair had it done it ringlets. In American it was the vast majority, but on the continent it was more mixed. It does appear to be associated with social class. The images we have found look to be children from well to do families. This is the impression, for example, we get from the Brussels children here (figure 1).

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