Figure 1.-- The unidentified children look to be about 7-14 years old. The girls waer similar white dresses with a light colored waist band and twin hair bows. Notice their black and white long stockings. Their little brother wears a tunic suit done in the Russian blouse fashion. Notice the neck band--the only collar onn nany Russian bluse styled garnents. There was also a square open neck style.

American tunics were done with a wide tange of collars. This is understandable givem the fact taht tunics were worn for over a century and done in many dfifferent styles. The collar was aprty of the sytyling. In addition there were also detachable collars worn over their actual tunic collar. The Ohio boy on the previous page wears a karge detachable white collar. Notice that you can not see the top of the tunic. And to further complicate the collar issue, often bows or other neckwear was added which obscures the collar. In the late-19th century these bows could be huge. While we note boys wearing tunics early in the 19th century, we do not have the images needed to follow tunic elements until mid-century. Actually, most of the images we have found date to the early-20th century when tunics suddenly became very popular. This of course affects our examination of the various collar styles. We notice detacable collars, usully Eton or Eton-like collars. And wee notice collars that may be bkouse collars worn undernbeath the tunic. This is a little difficult to sort out when we are just working with photographs. As for collars that were part of the tunic, we notice sailor, Peter Pan, and Russian blouse collars, three of the most popular tunmic collars in the early-20th century. There were also Fauntrleroy collars, but these are less common because by the turn-of-the 20th century when tunics were becoming especially popular, the Fauntleroy Craze was declining. page.

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