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Many boys as part of the Fauntleroy Craze were dressed in the fancy suits, often velvet, with elborate trim. At first there was considrable variation in Fauntleroy suit styling. Mothers had no template to work with or were ready made suits readily vailable in the stores. This soon changed, but early styles could be quite varied. The boy's suit here, probably about 1888 is a good ecample of the many vaiations we see at the begunmning of the Faunteroy Craze (figure 1). The classic American suit became a two-piece outfit--velvet cut-away jacket and knee pants. Many European boys wore bloomer knickers, but American Fauntleroy suits were mostly knee pants suits worn with dark long stockings. And much larger numbers in less expensive imitations or suits with some Fauntleroy styling. We see quite a range of styles during this period. Boys not only wore velvet suits, but destinctive Fauntleroy blouses with large lace and ruffled collars. Lace collars were worn, like the boy's suit on the previous page. More common were alrge ruffled collars. These became increasingly common in the second half of the decade and on intoi thge 1890s. Some mothers added ringlet curls. This was especially the case in America. Ringlets were much less common in Europe. A minority of the boys wearing Fauntleroy suits wore ringlets, but the two styles became fused in the popular mind.
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