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We see many boys wearing the classic Norfolk jacket with vertical vents and hortizontal belts. We see many boys wearing jackets with Norfolk elements by the 1880s. They were almost all collar buttioning jackets. Most seem to have been collar-buttoning jackets. We note a variety of minor differences in the various examples we have found. And of course given the impact of the Fauntleroy Craze, we see all kinds of accompnying embelishments with large collars and sometimes huge floppy bows. We see a little of that with the boy here (figure 1). Norfolk suits were less affected, in part because of the collar-buttoning jacket. Notice that the classic Fauntleroy jacket was the open cut-away jacket which exposed Fauntleriy blouses to their full satorial glory. The Norfolk jacket was just the opposite. With a closed jacket there was less potential for Fauntleoy emblesishment.
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