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American boys wore Fauntleroy suits with a variety of headwear. Here the fact that headwear was not commonly worn by the boy for photographic studio portraits. In particular boys with ringlets did not wear headwear. Presumably mother wanted to show off the ringlets to best affect. This may thus distort the relative importance of different headwear styles as exhibited in the photographic record. This limits the number of available images. The most common, or at least the hat most associated with the Fauntleroy suit was the wide-brimmed sailor hat. That is the headwear often used in illustrations. It is not as common in the actual potographic record. Many other styles of headwear were worn with the Fauntleroy suit depending on the mother's fashion sence. We in fact note quite a range of headwear styles in the photographic record. This includes headwear styles not often associated with Fauntleroy suits. There seems to have been more different headwear styles worn in America than Europe. but this could simply be a reflection of our greater archive of American images. We note some familiar styles as well as styles that we are unsure about the proper term. In addition to broad-brimmed sailor caps we note peaked caps, pill-box type caps, tams, and many others.
American boys wore Fauntleroy suits with a variety of headwear. Here the fact that headwear was not commonly worn by the boy for photographic studio portraits. In particular boys with ringlets did not wear headwear. Presumably mother wanted to show off the ringlets to best affect. This may thus distort the relative importance of different headwear styles as exhibited in the photographic record. This limits the number of available images.
The most common, or at least the hat most associated with the Fauntleroy suit was the wide-brimmed sailor hat. That is the headwear often used in illustrations. It is not as common in the actual potographic redord. We do see a number of them, usually worn by younger boys. We see other sailor-style hats worn with Fauntrleroy suits. There were two major stylistic elements, the crown and the brim. We note both rounded and flat crowns. We also notice hats with widely varied brim widths. There were other vatiables, including the hat band, streamers, and chin straps. We do not notice many other hat styles worn with Fauntleroy suits. Many of the hats we notice were straw hats, but we do notice some other materials.
Many other styles of head gear were worn with the Fauntleroy suit depending on the mother's fashion sence. We in fact note quite a range of headwear styles in the photographic record. This includes headwear styles not often associated with Fauntleroy suits, including msany cap styles. There seems to have been more different headwear styles worn in America than Europe. but this could simply be a reflection of our greater archive of American images. We note some familiar styles as well as styles that we are unsure about the proper term. In addition to broad-brimmed sailor caps we note peaked caps, pill-box type caps, tams, and many others.
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