Figure 1.--Here we see a boy wearing a cut-away jacket with laaels. The boy is pictured with his mother or probably grandmother. He looks to be about 7 years old. Notice the large white collar and ribbon tie. The stuit has piping and button decorations. The studio was E.W. Hurd in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Cut-away jackets were cut in a variety of styles and cuts. The two basic styles were plain cuts and lapel/collar cuts. Most of these jackets were plainly cut, making the cut-away jacket a basically simple garment. We also notice cut-away jackets with lapels. This was most common at mid century through the 1870s. The boy on the previous page in the 1870s is a good example. Sone of these cut-away jackets look more like sack suit jacketsm especially if the cut away fortion of the jacket is very limited. h boy's jacket here is an example (figure 1). So we have some jackets that can be described as a cut-away jacket with sack suit elenments or alternatively a sack suit with cit-away jacket elements. The lapels we see are mostly highset and small, but this varied especially through the 1870s when fashion style tended to less standarized. This was largely because ready made clothing becomes increasingly important. Cut-away jackets declined in popularity during the 1880s, except for Fauntleroy suits. And for Funtlroy suits it was the basic cut wihout lapels that were used. Some of the jackets had ebvroidered designs, but did not have lapels.

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