Figure 1.--Here we see two siblings a baby whon seems to be a gurl and her big brother who looks to be about 4 years old. The boys wears a classic kilt suit. We can catch a tiny glimpse of his printpatterned blouse behind the floppy blouse. We suspect that the wide collar we see was part of an attached blouse. Note the boy's ring. The studio was Kellogg in Hrford, Connecticut.

When kilt suits first appeared boys tended to wear small collars. By the time the kilt suit began to go out of style, very large collars were still fashionable. In many instances all we see is the collar. We note blouses with both attached abnd detacable collars. Many kilts suits were worn with vests covering up the shirt or blouse so all we see is the collar or perhaps wrist cuffs which we can see on the previous page. With the onset of the Fauntleroy Craze (1885), we begin to see boys wearing lace and ruffled trimed blouses. This was affected some what by vests. Blouses were necessary with the bodice kilts. The kilts worn with vests often had prominent collars, but usually less fancy than those worn with blouses. Eton collars were popular. Onev the previous page we see an example, we think from 1893. Another boy wearing a wide white collar, but it is not possible to make out much detail. The fancy collars were not only worn with kilt suits, but boys often continued wearing them after being breeched and a knee pants suit purchased. Of course Fauntleroy suits were worn with large lace collars, but they were worn with other less fancy suits as well. We rarely get to see the front placket and never the waist hem if the blouse. Only id the kilt suit was worn without a jacket t=do we see the blouse. Of course this does not tell us necesarially what was worn with kilt suits.

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