Figure 1.--Here we notice an American boy, apparently in the 1880s, wearing an Eton collar over his floppy bow. It was more coppy to wear the bow over the collar.
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Figure 1.--Here we notice an American boy, apparently in the 1880s, wearing an Eton collar over his floppy bow. It was more coppy to wear the bow over the collar. |
The fashion concerning neckwear worn with the Eton collar was quite variable. We have noted boys wearing Wton collars both with and without neckwear. We have also noted boys wearing Etin cillars with different types of neckwear, including floppy bows, bowties, and neckties. Trends varied from country to country. The fashion for younger boys to wear Eton collars with floppy bows was largely an American style during the 1880s and 90s. A further complication is that some boys wore neckwear over their Eton cillars and others under it. The conventions varied over time. We have not yet able to assess the chronological trends, which are complicated by country differences. HBC doest not yet have sufficent information to assess the timeline of all these different fashion conventions. Time trends in part reflect the changing trends in the popularity of different neckwear styles. Thus neck ties are seen after the turn-of-the-20th century and floppy bows become less common.
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