Figure 1.--Here we see three German brothers wearing elegant lace collars about the turn-of-the 20th century. The CDV portrait was taken by Fritz Hartmann in Dittersbach, Germany. |
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The Fauntleroy style was not as popular in Germany as in many other European countries. We seen some boys wearing lace collars, but they were not as popular as in America, Britain, and France. It is a little difficult to assess the popularity of the lace collar, but a good indivator is its presence in the photographic record and here it is clearly less common than in America and several other countries. I'm not sure what a Fauntleroy collar was called in German. Most of the examples of lace collars we have ound have been from the very late 19th century and the early 20th century before World War I. Many of the lace collars wee have found were pin-on styles and not fancy Fauntleroy blouses. We note different types of lace. This includes both proper lace and eyelet lace. They were worn by both boys and girls, but to date we have found more images of boys wearing them. Most of the images of boys show younger boys up to about 10 years of age. We also note the collars done in various shapes.
One element of Fauntleroy styling was the lace collar. The Fauntleroy style was not as popular in Germany as in many other European countries. I'm not sure what a Fauntleroy collar was called in German.
We seen some boys wearing lace collars, but they were not as popular as in America, Britain, and France. It is a little difficult to assess the popularity of the lace collar, but a good indivator is its presence in the photographic record and here it is clearly less common than in America and several other countries.
Most of the examples of lace collars we have ound have been from the very late 19th century and the early 20th century before World War I.
Many of the lace collars wee have found were pin-on styles and not fancy Fauntleroy blouses. We also note the collars done in various geographic shape. The pin-on collars seem especially common in Germany, but this is just a preliminary assessment.
We note different types of lace being worn by German boys. This includes both proper lace and eyelet lace. Proper lace could be very expensive. This lace in America was often called Belgian lace because it was imported from Belgium. There was a very important lace industry in Belgium. It was the same expensive lace women wore on their dresses. I do not know if Germany had a lace indstry or if it was imported from Belgium nd other countries. Eyelet lace was a less expensive altrnaive. Here holes were cut out of fabric and often embridered. I am not sure what the German term for this was.
Both German boys and girls wore lace collars, but to date we have found more images of boys wearing them.
Most of the images of boys show younger boys up to about 10 years of age. We have not noted many German boys wearing lace collars, but we have noted some. An example is German brothers in the 1880s. We have noted several different styles of lace collars among those we have noted.
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