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We note countless example of boys wearing Eton collars for nearly a centuty througout Europe and North America as well as many other counbtries with Western influences. And in almost all of those hundreds of thousands if not millions of surviving images we seem to find pristine, gleaming white collars. This was the cases for the vast majority of images we have found in the photographic record. Many of the images we have found are American, but this is because we have greater ccess to Ameican images and the fact that the United states left alrger photographic record than any other county. But in every country we have worked on we see almost all gleaming white Eton collars rather than colored or pattererned Etons. We think there were some colored collars, but have not yet found clear examples. We have, however found a few examples of Eton collars done with patterns. So far the examples we have noted are American, but we suspect that they have been avaulable in other countries as well. Even in America, however, they were a very small part of the huge number of gleaming White Eton collars we have archived. We think that the relative proprtion of examples in the photographic record are a good reflection of actual prevalence. Which would mean that the prevalence was rather rare, especially in countries other than the United States.
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