Figure 1.-- This unidentified boy wears a classiscFauntleroy kilt suit, Notice that the kilt bit could be replced with knee pants when mother deided he was ready for nreeching. He looks to be about 5 years old. His hair is done in righlet curls. The portreait was taken in 1891. The stidio was W.R. Tobias in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

American Fauntleroy Kilt Suits: Hair Styles

Most boys wore a variety of short hair cuts with Fauntleroy suits. Ringlet curls are often associated with Fauntleroy suits, but actually short hair cuts were muvh more common. We have found large numbers og boyhs ering ringlet curls, but they were a definite minority. The same seems o be true of boys wearing skirted Fauntkeroy oitfits including Fauntleroy kilt suits. Most boys weating Fauntleroy suits were younger boys, usually boys up to about 6 years of age. The boy wearing skirted Fauntleroy suits is only slightly younger. Thus the prevalence of rihjlets is only slightly younger for the skirted outfits. Most boys with both skirted Fautleroy outfits and pants wore short hair cuts. Asour archive grows we may b able to assess hair styling in more detail.






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