Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrat shows an unidentified American boy who looks to be about 4 yeaes old. He is wearing a rather plain blouse-type kilt suit. He senms to have an Eton collar and modest floppy bow. The portrait is undated, but looks like the 1890s to us. The studio was Lee in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

Boys wore a variety of collars with kilt suits. Many boys had fancy collars for their kilt suits. The most common collars were lace or ruffled collars of widely varying sizes and shapes. The lace collar was common, but ruffled collars seem less common than with Fauntleroy suits. Tghis was probably botha matter of cost and that ruffeled collars could thus be made in much larger sizes than lace collars. The boys wearing Fauntleroy kilt suits of course tended to have the fanciest collars. A few boys had Peter Pan and Eton collars. It is often difficult to tell the type of collar, in part because they were often covered up with floppy bows, especially the tips of the collar as is the case with the boy here (figure 1). Boys wore these collars were worn both with and without bows. We think the Eton collar was mjore common gthan the Peter Pan collar, but as the tips were commonly covered this is a little difficult to asses. And there were also large white collars that do not fit easily into either the Eton or Peter Pan collar. We arevnjotvsure if there were even names for sor if these ccollaes. The term Peter Pan collar actually was a term that only appeared after the turn-of-the 20th century by whichb time the kilt suit was disappearing.

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