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American boys wore a wide variety of hair styles with sailor suits in the Edwardian era. Most boys wore short hair styles with sailor suits. Many of them had worn long hair as younger boys, often with dresses or kilt suits. By the time that had graduated to more mature sailor suits, they had short hair. Not all boys had short hair. The fashion of long hair, often ringlet curls, began to decline in popularity after the turn of the 20th century, but it was still fairly widespread in the 1900s. Curls were increasingly a style for boys from aflluent families. Never very popular with boys, as fewer boys wore long hair, ringlet curls became even more unpopular. Curls for boys declined in popularity substantially in the 1910s, and for the most part disappeared except for very young children in the 1920s.
Most American boys wore short hair styles with sailor suits. The great majority of American boys wore short hair. Many of them had worn long hair as younger boys, often with dresses or kilt suits. By the time that had graduated to more mature sailor suits, they had short hair. Different styles of short hair were worn. Most hair styles were not severely short and American boys were not shaved or severely clipped as was the case in some European countries like Germany and Russia. One of the major variations was wear to make the part. Most boys wore side parts, but there were some center parts as well.
Many younger boys wore Dutch boy bangs in the Edwardian era. Generally bangs, however, were worn with sailor or Buster Brown tunics, rather than actual sailor suits. Some boys wore bangs with sailor suits, but it was not nearly as commion as wearing them with tunics.
N ot all boys had short hair. The fashion of long hair, often ringlet curls, began to decline in popularity after the turn of the 20th century, but it was still fairly widespread in the 1900s. Most American boys with long hair wore it curled. This was not the case in Europe where long hair was also worn uncurled, perhaps held in place with ribbons. American boys with long hair very commonly wore it curled.
Curls were increasingly a style for boys from aflluent families. This was in part a question of economics. Only affluent families could afford the time and bother of that went with curling a boys hair.
Never very popular with boys, as fewer boys wore long hair, ringlet curls became even more unpopular. Curls for boys declined in popularity substantially in the 1910s, and for the most part disappeared except for very young children in the 1920s.
A few boys not only wore ringlet curls, but mother might add a hair ribbon for special occasions. HBC is not sure how common hair ribbons were, but there are enough images in the photographic record to substantiate that it was not unknown.
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