Figure 1.--This cabinet cards shows a New York boy wearing a kilt suit with big white lace collar and cuffs. He also wears high top button shoes and black long stockings. His rounded-crown hat is propped up on the stair. Note the hat does noit have streamers. The portrait is undatedm but the mount styles suggests the 1870s. The photographer was Charles Rawson of Fulton Street St. in Brooklyn.

These jackets were worn both with and without collars and neckwear. There were quite a range of different collar styles. Some of the poopular ones were Eton, Peter Pan, lacem and ruffled. They not only varied in shape, but also in style. This of course has a significant impact on ther look of the outfit. Some of the collars and neckwear were so large that they cover up the top of the jacket, but they look like collar buttoning jackets. These were essentialy the same as the options for younger boys wearing these collars with knee pants. Some of the same collars and neckwear were worn with lapel jackets, but the collar-buttoning jackets were very common. There were sdignifican chronological differences here, Collars and neckwear increased in size substantially during the 1880s.

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