Figure 1.--Here the three younger brothers pictuyred with their older brother model three types of fancy collars. The little boy in the middle wears an elaborate pin-on collar which was not connected to a blouse. The boy on the right wears a large scalloped collar that was part of a blouse. Notice how the sailor jacket was worn open as well as the fancy wrist cuffs. We are less sure anout the boy at the left with the floppy bow. Notice how the edges are done in eyelet lace. This could have been part of a blouse, but it is worn with a collar-buttonmiong jacket and there are no fancy wrist cuffs. The cabinet card is not dates, but the style of the mount suggests thast it was tsken about 1900-05.

Lace collars were done both as collars connected to blouses and separate opin-on collars. It is often obvious if a lace collar is a pin-on type collar or part of the blouse. Funtleroy blouses with fancy collars were elabotate garments made to be seen not hidden. This is why they were commonly worn with cut-away jackets. The cut-away jacket or the open sailor jacket showed off not only the collar, but the front of the blouse. The pin-on collars were more likely to be worn with collar-buttoning jackets. The most elaborate pure lace collars were usually pin-on collars. There was not such sence in wearing a Fauntleroy blouse of you were going to cover it up with a collar buttoning jacket. A point here concerning lace collars, because the lace was expensive, it was not usually used for a Fauntleroy blouse. More likely was a ruffled collar. Fauntlerroy blouses might have lace as a trim on a large ruffled collar. A futher clue is the cuffs. Fauntleroy blouses also had cuffs with trim matching the collar. Thus if there are no fancy cuffs, thart is an indication that a boy may have a pin-on collar rather than wearing a Fauntleroy blouse.

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