American Little Lord Fauntleroy Jackets: Classic Fauntleroy Cut-away Jackets

Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentufied brother and sister about 1894, based on the award medals noted on the back. This is not an oval portarit, but a cut out cabinent card which is why we don't know the photographer and city. They look to be about 7-10 years old. The girls wears a flouncy white dress. The boy wears Faunteroy suit, fancy blouse and floppy bow. Notice the decorative piping and the boy's hat.

Fauntleroy jackets tended to be very plain with very little decoration. The dcoration for which the Fauntleroy suit is known came from ehe fancy blouses and floppy bows. We see some jackets with embrodery, sometimes heavily embroidered, commonly the velvet jackets. This does not show up in the photograohic record because the embriodery ws done in the same color as the jacket. This was often black, but there were other dark colors. These were commonly heavy weight suits, suitable for winter wear, although they were also worn in the summer. There were also Fauntleroy suits done in lighter-weight fabric, often in light colors. Like the dark velvet jackets, they were plain and not heavily decorated. We do see some with decorative piping. The boy's jacket here is a good example (figure 1). Notice the white piping on the younger boy's jacket on the previous page. The jackets had a range of differences. Many were tiny. Often you can hardly see the jackets because they are virtually obewhealmed by the highly decorative Fauntleroy blouses. Other jackets were larger like the one the older boy on the previous page. The tiny jackets were for the most part worn by the younger boys. We can also see that here. Some of the jackets had pockets which was also part of the sylistic variations.

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