Figure 1.--Here we see some Hollywod kids. The gurl is dressed informally in what looks like jeans. The boys wear smart Eton suits with large, often Eton collars. It must have been a little chilly as the boys wear sweaters with their suits. The press caption read, "Wallace Ford, Charles Starrett & Children: Two of Hollywood's proud papas get together. Wallace Ford, (l.) with nhis 8-year-old daughter, Patricia Anna, and Charles Starrett, pictured with is twins, Charles Jr. (cntr.) and David. Patty gave a party recently in her Laurel Canyon playhouse with the Starrett boiys a guests. No -- its not another of those Hollywood romances. Patty still insists she wants a man 'like Daddy'." The photograoph is dared May 14, 1935.
We still see detachable Eton collars, although they were no longer a major item as they had been earlier. We do see mostly see large collars, but they were not all detachable collars. The pointed Eton collars appear to have been the most common, but we begin to see some rounded Peter Pan collars as well. A good example is an Ohio boy wearing a classic Eton collar with an Eton suit, we believe in the 1930s, but it could be the 40s. Notice that he is wearing a stiff, large detachable collar. Not all the the large collars were detachable collars. We note the Starrett twins in 1935. They have large Eton collars which look to us like they are attached blouses (figure 1). It is, however, a little difficult to tell. The boys are twins who look to be about 8-9 years old.
