Figure 1.-- Here is the shirt show with the Fauntleroy outfit. We do not believe that this was a blouse, but probably an undershirt that might have been worn under the blouse.

Here the outfit is not shown with a fancy Fauntleroy blouse that almost certainly would have been worn with it. We believe that the cream garment shown with it is an undershirt. It was probably worn under a fancy blouse. The suit here is shown with a shirt that had ivory wool blouse with 14 mother-of pearl buttons down the front. All hand-made button holes. Inner cambric tunic for underblouse attached to skirt. Blouse and skirt button together and little middy collar on the shirt. As mentioned above, we believe this is an undershirt. We have never seen a portrait showing a boy wearing a shirt like this a Fauntleroy suit. What confuses us is the collar. We have not noted undershirts with a collar like this. Even so, we think this is and undershirt which buttoned on the kilt skirt. The boy would have worn a fancy Fauntleroy blouse. As the shirt here buttoned in to the skirt, the Fauntleroy blouse would have had a drawstring tie at the waist.

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