Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified boy dressed up for a portrait with the family pooch. He looks to be about 7-years old. We are not sure how to describe the jacket he is wearing. It has some feeatures of a Norfolk jacket. As in other instances, until we have a better name, we will describe it. It is a jacket with a button breast button pocket that was worn slightly open and connected with a Norfolk-like cental belt. We do not notice, hoever, the vertical venting. It does not have lapels, bit we are not sure if it buttons at the collar. This is because the example we have found has a boy wearing it with an Eton collar and floppy bow. Sone cut away jackets were done like this to show off fancy blouses. These jackets were not worn with especially fancy bows. We see this jacket in the 1920s.

We are not sure how to describe this jacket. It has some feeatures of a Norfolk jacket. As in other instances, until we have a better name, we will describe it. It is a jacket with a button breast button pocket that was worn slightly open and connected with a Norfolk-like cental belt. Norfolk suits had belts like this, but they were rarely used as the boy, or more crrectly mother, here is using the belt. We do not notice, hoever, the vertical venting. It does not have lapels, bit we are not sure if it buttons at the collar. This is because the example we have found has a boy wearing it with an Eton collar and floppy bow. Sone cut away jackets were done like this to show off fancy blouses. These jackets were not worn with especially fancy bows. We see this jacket in the 1920s. We have so few examples that we cannot yet develop a chronology. A reader writes, "The idea of a belt like connector for the jacket so the blouse was visible seems to be a stylish element. I haven't noted many examples either.". Another reader writes, " his photo reminds me of the tan long stockings I wore as a boy during the 1930s with a short pants suit although the styling of the single breasted suit jacket was somehwat different, and I wore an ordinary white shirt and tie, not a floppy bow. I also wore low-cut Oxford shoes, not high-tops. The length of the short pants, however, is the same my mother chose for me. I wore these long stockings until about age 12 years for dress-up occasions and sometimes to school. Most boys wore knickers, but my mother didn't like the look for some reason."

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