Kiltsuit Jackets


Figure 1.This American boy wears a kiltsuit with a small-bolero style Fauntleroy jacket. His blouse, however, is relatively plain. He has a stripped floppy bow. He was from Three Rivers and Schoolcraft, Michigan.

Kilt suit jackets were made in several different styles. We have seen quite a range of different styles. The jackets worn with kilt suits could be quite long. Much longer, for example, than Fauntleroy jackets. The exception of course was the kilt suits in the Fauntleroy style. These small jackets were worn to best show off fancy Fauntleroy blouses. A good example here is Bert Dodge in the 1880s. There were both jackets worn open and others worn buttoned to the collar. The boy here is wearing a small Fauntleroy-style jcket (figure 1). Many jackets were worn with vests which could be in either a matching or contrasting material. There were also jackets in lighter baterial that were bloused at the waist. Some of the jackets which buttoned to the collar also bloused that this was less common than the jackets which extended over the hips. This was especially common when the jacket was done in the sailor style. The shorter jackets could be worn interchangably with kneepants. The longer style jackets were suitable only to be worm as part of a kilt suit. We have noted both chronolgical and national differences in these jackets.








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