Figure 4.--Note this boy's (H. Christie) long tresses which have not been curled. His mother has kept him in a dress with elaborate work on the skirt and a very wide, lacey Fauntleroy collar. Alao notice the patterened stockings. The picture was taken in the late 1880s.

We have occasionally noted boys wearing other patterned stockings, but am not precisely sure at this time how to describe the platterns. Boys wearing these patterened stockings are generally yoinger boys not yet breeched or boys wearing fancy Fauntleroy suits. This is largely a late 19th century fashioin, although some boys may have worn these other patterned stockings in the 1900s, but we have not noted them in the 1910s. We have noted these patterened stockings in both black and white, but doubt id these were widely worn in other colors. A HBC reader believes that the boy shown here wears long stockings in a kind of diamond pattern (figure 1). We have noticed modern tights for girls with desisns as part of a pattern--usually white tights. We do not know if 19th or early 20th century long stockings had these designs. If so they were not very common.