Figure 1.--This curly haired boy was Robert Webb. He looks to be about 5 years old. Robert is smartly attired in a stylish sailor suit jacket with embroidery on a wide collar and dickey. Note that he does not wear the traditional 'V'-collar that was becoming so popular. There is a suggestion of a 'V' collar but the sides of the collar are widely extended. Note that the fancy embroidery on the collar with a suggestion of scalopping matches that on the dickey.

This curly haired boy was Ribert Webb. He looks to be about 5 years old. Robert is smartly attired in a stylish sailor suit jacket with embroidery on a wide collar and dickey. Note that he does not wear the traditional 'V'-collar that was becomiong so popular. There is a suggestion of a 'V' collar but the sides of the collar are widely extended. Note that the fancy embroidery on the collar with a suggestion of scalopping matches that on the dickey. It looks to be flower which was not very common for sailor suits. Usually se see anchors, stars, and other nautical devices. The portrait was taken at the Siegel Cocker studio located in Chicago, Illinois. This is an oval format photo mounted as a cabinet card. It is one of the new style mounts which helps us date the portrait to the 1900s. Not only is Robert's sailor suit very stylish, so is his hair. A reader comments on Robert's hair, "The hair styling, looks casual, but the symmetry of the curls either side of the central parting, suggests that some time was taken to create it."

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Created: 3:36 AM 8/8/2011
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