Figure 1.--This portrait is unidentified. We would guess the boy was about 6 years old. All we know is that the portrait was taken in Philadelphia, Peensylvania. We believe that the portrait was taken in the 1890s.
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Figure 1.--This portrait is unidentified. We would guess the boy was about 6 years old. All we know is that the portrait was taken in Philadelphia, Peensylvania. We believe that the portrait was taken in the 1890s. |
Some of the boys wearing sailor suits had ringlet curls which became especially popular in the 1880s as part of the Fauntleroy craze. The boys with long hair were a minority, but this of course varied with age. Quite a few bpys at 5 or 6 might still have their curls. By 10 most, but not all boys had their curls cut. The fact that many boys wore ringlet curls with sailor suits is primarily a function of how common the sailor suit was rather than an association between tinglets and the sailor suit--as was the case for the Fauntleroy suit. Huge numbers of boys wore sailor suits so we fimd boys wearing them with just about every hair style.
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