Figure 1.--This cabinet potrait shows an unidentified boy wearing what looks like a cut-away jacket with Norfolk styling. It is not all together clear if this is a cut-away jacket or a jacket worn open. Either it way it showsd the style retained some popularity. He looks to be about 11-years old. The portrait is undated, but looks to hsve been taken in theearly-1880s. By this time the cut-away jacket was declining in popularity. The studio was Manly & Son Photographer in Canton, Ohio. Notice the soft rounded-crown hat.

We have only limited information on headwear, but have begin to archive a number of images showing the headwear the boys were wearing with these jackerts. We do not notice matching headwear. We mostly see the boys wearing hats rather than caps. We see some caps, but they are much less common that the hats. We do not see many caps. Boater hats were popular headwear as can be seen on the previous page. We also note various types of rounded-crown hats. We have noted both the formed and soft hats. The stiffened hats seem more common, in part because the soft hats appeared after the cut-away jackets had begun to decline in popularity.

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