Figure 1.-- This cabinet portrait was taken in 1890. The unidentified boy wears a blouse-top kilt suit. Notice the floppy now a soft hat. The studio was You are Bullard in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Itwas a rare dated mount.

Kilt suits continued tobe dine in various styles. We see various styles for these kilt suits and the photographic record as a result of the outfits populaity ofers many examples of the various styles. Many kilt suits were done with suits with sack suit jackets. We still see some Fauntleroy-styled kilt suits. There will also sailor kilt suits. And we also see boys with blouse tops rather than jackets. as well as These were the same styles we noted in the 1880s. We are assessing the various portraits to see id there were any duscrnable chronological trends. We do not yet notice any stylistic trend, but by the end of the decade we see te kilt suit becoming much less common and being worm by mostly younger boys. We note a Cadiz, Ohio boy wearing a blouse top rarher than a jacket during 1890. We note both standard kilt suits and the Fauntleroy kilt suits with fancy blouses. We also notice boys wearing other large collars such as Eton collars, often with floppy bows. This trend began in the 1880s and cointinued into the 90s. Most of the portraits show the boys wearing dark, probably black, long stockings. We notice Tommy Purcell wearing a sailor pleated skirt outfit in 1892.

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