Little Lord Fauntleroy Suits: English Garments--Trousers

Figure 1.-- This CDV portrait is unidentified English boy about 7 yers old. He wears wears a velvet suit with piping. We are not sure if it is a collar buttoning jacket, but it might be. He holds a straw broad-brimmed hat with long streamers. The plain floppy bow is relatively small. We are not sure about the color. The suit has knee pants rather than bloomer knickers. Note the low-cut shoes which would identify this as British rather than American. The only Fauntleroy styling is a medium sized scaloped collar. The CDV is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1880s. It may have een the early-80s before the the Fauntleroy craze began. The photographer was R. Pitcher & Co in Clapham, a London suburb.

We see English boys wearing a variety of trousers with Fauntleroy suits in the late-19th century. We see basically tthe same kind of pants boys wore in geneal fwberal. We see straight-leg knee pants, bloomer knickers, and short pants. We do not see boys wearing long pants or regular knickers with Fauntleroy suits. For Fauntleroy suits we primarily see boys wearing knee pants and bloomer knickers being worn used. The boy here has aknee pants suit. Bloomer knickers seem the most common especially for classic Fauntleroy suits with Fauntleroy blouses and large lace or ruffled collars. This is different than American where boys mostly wore knee pants and long stockings with these suits. Our ininital assessment is most of the classic suits in England were done with bloomer knickers, at least far more than in America. This is a basic difference between American abd English Fauntleroy suits. Almost all American Fauntleroy suits were done with knee pants. For regular suits worn by youngr boys in England we see a mix of bollomer knickers and knee pants. We also see short pants. A good example is George Bampfield in 1895. They were not as common as bloomer knickers and knee pants, but we do see some. The Fauntleroy suits were commonly collar-buttoning jackers rather than the classic cut away jackets along with more modest Fauntleroy styling might use knee pants rather than the bloomr knickers.

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