Figure 1.--This French boy look to be about four years old. He wears a short pants outfit and ringlet curls. We are not sure about the date, perhaps the 1930s. |
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We continue to see a few French boys with ringlet curls in the early-20th century. Quantifying this is difficult with a relatively small archive. After the early-20th century, ringlet curls become less common. We note an undated portait of an unidentified boy, perhaps taken in the 1930s (figure 1). An dated example is a French boy in Algeria during 1949. Interestingly he has been sent off to school still with his ringlets. This was not very common. It seems unusual to find these images with a realtively small archive. Whether this means that ringlets were more common than we expected or just an unsual occurance we are not sure. We do, however, notice a few examples into the mid-20th century. The last dated example we have comes from the 1940s, but we suspect there were some in te 1950s as well.
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