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We note the Franklin Simon department store offering coats for boys and teenagers of all ages except infants and very young boys. . The age range was 2 1/2 -17 years of age. The catalog page describes 'auto, rain, and top coats'. Top coats seems to mean overcoats. The reefers might be called jackets, but there are no light-weight jackets offered. The younger boys are seen with reefers, double-breasted coats, some with velvet trim collars. They are done wih various patterns, includung a bold check. The coats are for boys ages 2 1/2-10-12 years. We also see rain coats, top cots, and duster (auto coat) for teengers up to 17 years. Auto coat reflect the open body cars of the time. The headwear is discussed in the 'Headwater' section. Again these coats and headwear look like garment that middle-class boys and teenagers and not working-class boys would wear. Notice a car is pictured in the illustration. The car was still aprestgious army. Henry Ford had created the bare bones Model-T, a car which workercould afford, but thuis only occurred in America. It is worth noeing that warm coats were very imprtant at the time because so much of the population lived in northern states.
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