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Almost all of these collar buttoning jckets are cut short with instead of lapels, a single vertical column of buttons like the boy on the previous pasge. There were a range of stylistic differences, but the basic chracterustic was a a short jacket, collar button, and sinfgle vertical coumn of buttons. There may or may not be pockets. The suit the boy here iswearung does not seem to have any pockets. Some may have had collars, but thus is hard to tell, because they were commonly worn with large detachable collars covering up the top of the jacket. We note one example of the jacket done with double button collums looking like a double-breasted jacket (figure 1). This as far as we can tell not very common even though double-breasted styling was very popular in the late-19th century. It is the only such example we have found. We have not yet found an American example. We are not sure how to date it. The dealer suggests the late-1880s.
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