Vintage Little Lord Fauntleroy Suits: English Sailor Style Suit (1890s


Figure 4.--This is an English velvet suit dome witha V-collar, but with Fauntleroy style Irice lace trim. The suit is undated, but was probably made in the 1890s. It is in the colletion of the Bowes Museum. We are not sufre how common such suits wrre in Britain, we have not seen one quite like it in America.

This is an English velvet suit dome witha V-collar, but with Fauntleroy style Irice lace trim. The suit is undated, but was probably made in the 1890s. It is in the colletion of the Bowes Museum. We are not sufre how common such suits wrre in Britain, we have not seen one quite like it in America. Even the knee pants are trimmed in lace. Often English Fauntkroy suits had bloomer knickers. American suits wee mostlhy kneepants, although the lace trim on knee pants was unusual, but not unknown.







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