Figure 1.--This family snapshot shows an unidentified German boy on a wooden rocking horse in 1938. He is named, but we can't make out the writing. He wears a velvet short pants Fauntleroy suit with a modest ruffled collar blouse.

While we do not see many German Faurntleroy suits during the heighth of the 19th century Fauntleroy Craze, we do begin to see them after the turn of the 20th century. The image here is a good example (figure 1). This boy is unidentified, but came from an obviosly wealthy family and it is a 20th century image. We do begin see boys from well to do German families wearing Fauntleroy suits or Fauntleroy influenced suits in the 20th century during the 1910s-30s. They all seem to be boys from wealthy families or at least the uper-middle class, perhaps influenced by Bavarian royalty. A good example are the Staufenberg boys in 1915. We notice a few examples after World War I in the 1920s and 30s, but fewer and less elaboratte outfits. And we no longer see long flowing hair. They wear what might be called modest Fauntleroy suits. This could include cut-away jackets and small ruffled collar. These outfits were much less elaborate than the Fauntleroy suits of the late-19th century, but we see quite a few German boys in the early-20th century wearing outfits with Fauntleroy features. This included boys dressed up for their first day of school.

Created: 11:55 PM 8/12/2013
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