Figure 1.--This American image is a matted "studio" photograph from Montpelier, Vermont. The photograph is undated, but appears to be from the early 1900s, perhaps about 1905. Written beneath the photo are the words "Uncle Robert Harvey and Maurice". Embossed upon the matting beneath the photograph are the words "Ayers Art Studio, Montpelier, VT." Maurice wears a dark sailor tunic with his Dutch boy or Buster Brown bangs. I'm not sure how old Maurice was, perhaps 5-6 years old. |
Dutch boy or Buster Brown bangs were of course most associated with the Buster Brown tunic suits, however many boys wearing sailor tunics also wore Buster Brown bangs. Actually as the sailor tunics appear to have been more common than Buster Brown suits, more boys probably wore Buster Brown bangs with sailor tunics. Drawings often show Buster Brown tunics. Many of the available photograpgic images, a much better indicator of actual popularity, show more boys wearing bangs with sailor styled tunics at turn-of-the-century America. These sailor tunivs varied widely in style, but usually the sailor stylistic features are easy to spot. Buster Brown bangs, however, were not nearly as common with Russian tunics. We are not yet sure just why this was.
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