Figure 1.--

The stereotypical image is that ringler curls were worn with Fauntleroy suits and vloses as well as other juvenile outdits like sailor suits and kilt suits. Very young boy might wear ringlets with dresses. Even with Fauntleroy suits, ringlets were not all that common. But by the late-19th century, the photographic record swas so extensive and America was so prosperous that we have found and archived large numbers of images of boys wearing ringlets with a wide range of different outfits. And this included regular suits, not just the juvenile outfits normally associated with ringlets -- like the elaborate Fauntleroy blouse we see on the previous page. This was the most common outfits worn with ringlets. But we so see a few worn with the various other suits that older boys wore. We do not see many examples of this, but we have found a few examples in the pjotographic record, mostly before the Fauntleroy Craze era (1885-1905). This is a little complicated because many boys wore regular suits with some Fauntleroy trim. The stereotypical image is that Fauntleroy suits were associated with ringlet curls. Ringlets were much less common than Fauntleroy trim with regular suits. This on the whole was less common than Fauntleroy suits and sailor suits because far fewer younger boys wore regular suits during the Fauntleroy era. Here social class was a factor. Boys from working-class families were less likely to wear Fauntleroy suits and much less likely to have their hair done in ringlets. This was most common with mothers from comfortable middle- and upper-class families with lots of free time on their hands. .

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