Figure 1.--This handicapped older brother is dressesd in a sailor suit and emaculately done ringlets. This portrait appears to have been taken in the kate 1890s or early 1900s in America. He looks to be about 12 years old. This is beyond the age most boys wore ringlets. One suspects that he was being very tenderly cared for and schooled at home.

Boys' Ringlet Curls: Special Attention--Handicapped Boys

Boys given special care might also include handicapped boys who at the time were schooled at home rather than being mainstreamed. Not only did they need special care, but school authorities and the other children at the time were often not very supportive. Thus HBC suspects if the family was finacially able, that these children were carefully cared for at home. One might suspect that mothers were especially solicitious toward these children and that many were coddleed even more that other children might have been. Generally speaking most boys had their ringlets cut before they began school at about age 6 years. Boys being scghool at home might wear ringlets longer, but most had their curls cut by about 8 uears of age. It was not unlnown, however, for boys to wear ringlets to age 12 or 13 years. Some of the handicapped boys being raised at home might well have worn their curls longer than other boys so restricted to their hime or cared for as tenderly by their adoring and protectiove mothers.








Christopher Wagner







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