Figure 1.--Here we see three younger boys weith curly hir, sureky brithers. They have different hair cuts, but similar. The snapshot is undated, but looks like the 1910s to us. (Boys this age in the 1920s were more likely to wear short pants.) Notice how the hair cuts get shorter as the boys get older. These long hair cuts and curls for boys were most common with affluent families.

Long hair and ringlets were becoming less common for younger boys by the late-1900s and this trend was readily apparent by the 1910s. These Funtlerroy styles hd largly if not comletelky disappeasred. Very few boys had shoulder-length hair, even younger boys. We still see a few boys wearing ringlets, but it was no longer very common and the few boys we see with ringlets were very young. There was a social class factor involved here. The ringlets also tended to be shorter. We see quite a few pre-school boys with longish hair down to or over their ears, but no longer hoiulder lengths. Short hair was much more common even for younger boys, but se see quite a few yonger boys with longish hair. And we ee see somewhst older boys wiyh Dutch-boy bangs. A good example is Floyd Van Horne. Almost all school-age boys had short hair. We do not see many boys with cropped hair as was common in Europe, but short hair was stanfard in America and referred to as a regular cut. This was now the standard for Americn boys. It is eaily discernable in school photogrpohy. America had one of the finest public school systens in the wold. And this school photigraoh provides a winderful cross section of popuklar styles. Portraits and snapshots have a social class bias with more affluent fmilies better represenrd than the working class. Most boys had cuts that short, but enough hair so that parts could be combed at one side. There were still some center parts, especially in the early 1910s. And the center parts were not nearly as prevalent as in the 1900s. Their hair was cut short at the sides, uually around the ears. This varied. Some boys had their hair cut well away from the ears. Other boys had their hair cut around the ears. The front was done in a number of ways. Bang were popular for younger boys. older boys combed a kind of wage over the foorehead. There were many differences, often becsause of the cdifferent hair types, sychas curly hair we can see tyhis in the image here (figure 1)..

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