Figure 1.--Here we see a little American boy with slicked-down hair. He weas a fancy dress with a square lace collar. It looks like a bib, but probably wasn't used as a bib. This lace collar may have been secured in the back rather hn pinned on. |
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We notice some lace collars done as squares or perhaps more commonly. The square/rectangle lace collar does not seem as common as many other other styles, in part because it generally meant covering a fairly large area and lace was expensive. It also was a plainer shape, an mothers at the time were more concerned with fancy decorative ornamentation. We notice one example of an essentially rectangular lace collar worn by Frank Wulf, we think in the 1880s. His lace collar had circles added to the basically rectangular shape. We note other collars that were more fully square. Some look rather like bibs, but we don't think mothers would have used expensive lace as bibs and in fact lace would have not served to really protect the garment undeneath.
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