Figure 1.--This Canadian boy was photograghed by the Notman Studio in Montreal during 1880. He wears fancy kneepants suit. |
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We have noted very few portraits of Canadian boys wearing hairbows. This may be a result of the limited number of images available to us. We have also noted only one image of a boy weaing hairbos from the Canadian Notman collection, although we have only seen part of it. A HBC reader writes, "Yes, it is strange that none of the boys that I have seen in the Notman Collection have hair bows. You would think that since Quebec is a French speaking province, they would follow the French fashion. Also the photographs online have a lot of gaps in coverage. A lot of the photos are from 1880, 1885, and 1891 with in intervening years
missing. It would also be interesting to know if romper and choupettes hair styles were popular in the provance in the forties and fifties. I did find one child in a dress and rinlets with a hair ribbon that I think is a boy, but I can't be sure."
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