Figure 1.-- A popular cut for younger boys was the bowl cut. This was a cut where the hair was cur short at the neck and below the upper or mid-ear. It of course got its name because mother used a bowl which allowed an ecent cut all around the head, inclusing a cut to the same length at both sides. The little American boy wearing a tunic suit, white long stockings, and white strap shoes was probably phorographed in the 1910s.

The little American boy here is wearing a tunic suit, white long stockings, and white strap shoes was probably phorographed in the 1910s. A reader writes, "Have you noticed that this boy with the bowl haircut is wearing long underwear under his white long stockings. You can clearly see the little ridge just above his ankles where the long underwear stops. This boy is probably wearing a long-legged waist union suit with attachments for supporters sewn onto his underwear. Waist suits were becoming available in the mid-1910s. Note that the long stockings fit rather loosely--partly the result of the underwear underneath."

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