Figure 1.--Here at this rural school we see boys wearing collared shirts and blouses to school. Some of the youngr boy asre wearing rounded Peter Pan collars, but not the blouses with Fauntleroy trim that were more common in the 1910s. Unfortunately the cabinet card is not dated. We think it is fairly safe to say tht the portrait was taken in the 1910s, but we are not sure of it was the early or later part of the decade. Click on the image to see more of the class.

Blouses for boys in the 1910s had smaller and less fancy collars than earlier. We see fewer fancy Funtleroy collars for the younger boys and we ilder boys turning way from ther pliner Guntlrtoy collars by the end of the decade/ We see some bioys sgtuill wearing blouses wiyth large collrs. Thus by the end of the decade boys with huge collars were no longer very common. We see more boys wearing small collars of various styles included rounded Peter Pan collars. We believe these Lrge collrsfor boys were mostrly sewn on blouses. e see more vboys wearing modern-looking collars. There was a decided shift toeard shirts with more standard sized, pointed cillars. Eton collars were not worn on blouses but rather as detachable collars for shirts or waists. We still see some. We see many other styles, many of which we are unable to identify. Some did not have spread points like Etons. Most of the Eton collsrs we see are detachable collars. These detachable collars were still worn in the 10s by boys drssing up, but not as commonly as in the 1900s. And after the War Eton collars declined sharply in poularity, but did not disappear. .

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