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American Fauntleroy Blouses: Age Trends--4 Year Olds

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Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrait shows an unidentified Maryland boy about 4 years old wearing a white Fauntleroy blouse and ringlet curls. The portrait is undated, but the clothes, short ringlets, and new style mount suggests the 1900s. The blouse has a collar extending beyond the sholders and edged in cut-piy lace. There is a front ruff, also with cutout lace. It is somewhat covered by a large white floppy bow. The wrist cuffs are plain. The studio was Gruber in Hagerstown, Maryland. Click on the image to see the full portrait.

American boys commonly wore Fauntleroy blouses at age 4 years. The photographic record provides us countless examples. the boy here is a good example (figure 1). We note a variety of styles. Most of the Fauntleroy blouss we note as this age were white. At age 4 boys wore them both with and without Fauntleroy suits. They were worn with a variety of outfits or even without jackets. Older boys once they began school might wear Fauntleroy blouses with regular jackets, but age 4 years we see many of the boys wearing the cassic Fauntleroy cut-away jacket. We note an unidentified American boy photographed in the 1890s wearing knee pants and a fancy Fauntleroy blouse with a large floppy bow. He looks to be about 4 years old. We note New York boy Freddiec Deveraux in 1892. In his case we know precisely how old he was, 4 years and 8 months. He wears his fairly modest Fauntlroy blouse as part of a kilt suit.







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