American Boys' Collar Styles: Fauntleroy Collars -- Usage

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Figure 1.--Botice that here in a rough logging camp in northern Wisconsin we see three boys with their Fauntleroy collars worn over their overcoats. The photograph was taken in 1899.

Usage in connection with Fauntleroy collars is a little compicated. Thankfully at about the same time that the Fauntleroy craze began, George Eastman and his Kodak company be gan to develop products making the amateur sanpshot. This essentially began (1890s), but the Kodak Brownie was a game changer (1900). This means that we begin to mget images outside the studio mwhen boys are commonly dressed up in their best outfits, even wearing their suit jackets during the summer. Here seasonality is a factor. Boys in the summer when it is warm might just wear a Fauntleroy blouse without a jacket. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). When it gets cooler they wear their suit jackets. At the time it was very common for boys to wear suits. There were still not a lot of casual wear. Mostly boys wore suits. Another question is what about the winter when it really gets cold, especilly in the norhern states. Here we do not get a lot of information from studio mphotography which was still the major source pf photographic evidence. Boys rarely wore their overcoats for stufiomportaits. But thanks to the new box camerals we have some snapshots showing boys in winter scenes. And moms being moms, some of the boys wore their faintleroy collars so theu showed over the overcoats. And this was not just in the refined big cities with well-to-do families. We see it bin rough logging camps in northern Minnesota.







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