Figure 1.--This Daguerreotype has unfortuntely deteriorated, but the dashion elements are clear. The unidentified biy looks to be about 13-years old. He wears a collar-buttoning military styled jacket with white rather than brass buttons. He has a modest white detachable collar which he wears with a neatly tied colored bowtie. We can tell that is not black, but have no idea what color it may be. We have seen blue ties, but not red. Our archive of colorized images, however, is very limited. We think this may be an 1840s Dag, but we are not at all sure.

We see boys wearing these jackets both with and without neckwear. This depended some what on the collar. We see boys wearing these jackets without vissible shirt collars or with shirt collars just peeking outfrom the jacket. This made it difficult to wear neckwear, but not impossible. The boy here wears one of these bowties without a substantial shirt collar. Other boys wore larger collars. This often meant a large detachable Eton collar or Eton like collar. We are not yt sure about the chronological trends here. The neckwear tended to be small, especially compared to the huge floppy bows that came lter in the decade. The standard adult neckwear at the time was the plain stock. These were not real comfortable to wear. We see some boys wearing them, but more common seens a related style which the stock being done in a kind of small bow tie. We also see roughly formed small bows. This included both black and patterned stocks and bows. The black ones seem the most common, but this is just an initial assessment. And like the image here, we do ee colored bows. We can tell that is not black, but have no idea what color it may be. We have seen blue bowties, but not red. Our archive of colorized images, however, is very limited. We think this may be an 1840s Dag, but we are not at all sure.

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