Little Lord Fauntleroy Suits: Family Images

Figure 1.-- Here we see the whole family done up in Fauntleroy outfits. The children look to be about 1-8 years old. All the boys except the baby wear Fauntleroy blouse with ruffles. Notice that the floppy bows on the two older boys are striped but not identical. The baby has a lace collar. The younger boy wears a Fauntleroy kilt suit with a classic cut-away jacke with a polka dot bow. The two older boys wear suits. They are regular knee pants suits, but the fancy blouses give them a Fauntleroy look. The jackets are not identical, oviously not purchased for the photo. The jackets would have had lapels, but they are hard to see. Lapels at the time could be small and set high on the jacket. One of the two older boys has short hair and he other had inglets. The clothes and cabinet card mount style tell us that the portarit was taken in the 1890s.

Most old photographs are undated. This means that in most cases we have to estimate a child's age. This means that we can not report the level of precission that we would like. While we can not guarantee that we are correct in our estimates, we believe that they are geneally within a year or so of the acatual ages. And we encourage readers to send in their estimates if you think that we are off. his helps to cottrcr any estimates atht are rally out of line. Especially helpful are family portraits. When we have several children in a family we can more easily assess ages, given their are finite limit betwwn kids imposed by biology. This adds a little informatiom to the assessment effort. Usually only about two boys in a family are seen wearing Fauntleroy suits in family potriats, but sometimes there are more. And the moe children we have, the easier it is to guess the children's ages.

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Created: 10:15 PM 6/17/2019
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