Figure 1.--This cabinet card portait shows an unidentified boy wearing a kilt suit with a small cut-away vest rather than a jacket. He wears a Fauneroy blouse with a moderately sized lace collar and floppy blow. He is holding a walking stick. The studio was P. D. Sutphen of Brekenridge, Missouri. h looks to be about 4-years old.

We do not note boys many boys wearing just the vest with the kilt-skirt. We have found very few exceptions in the phoographic record. We see blouses and kilts, but rarely just vests and kilts. his is very rare in the photograpohic recird. he vest may have been worn seasonally, but we are not positive about that as few of the available images are dated. It is possible that the photographic record, which is mostly studio portaits, may not accurately reflect actual conventions. It could be that mothers wanted images of the boys dressed formally and not how they might actualy dress informally during the summer. We have found onlyh a few images of boys wearing just vests without jackes when wearing kilt suits. More likely, however, the jackets were commonlky worn as kilt suits and not just the vests. Like the jackets, the vests seem to have been done in the same material as the kilt skirt. Nor are we sure if there were any noticeable trends regarding the kilt-skirt styling. They were not very common, but not unknown. We see boys wearing cut-away jackets even small cut-away jackets, but vests are realtively rare. We are not sure just how common vests in general were for boys, at the time, at least worn without a jacket. We do not have enough examples yet to know anything about chronological trends.

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