Figure 1.--This cabinent card shows Roy Swanson wearing a Fauntleroy kilt suit. He has a classic cut-away velvet jacket and a long kilt. The kilt is pleated and has kilt styling. As was often the case, the kilt is rather long. He also has a Fauntleroy blouse, but a rather plain one with a white floppy bow. Roy has long hair, but it is not done in ringlets. Roy looks to be about 4-years old. The studio was G.A, Douglass in Manso, Iowa. The portrait is undated, but white whicker furniture often indicated portrais taken at the turn-of-the-20th century in the early 1900s. At the time both kilt suits and Fauntleroy suits were going out of style which probably explains the rather plain blouse. This also suggests the very early 1900s.

This cabinent card shows Roy Swanson wearing a Fauntleroy kilt suit. He has a classic cut-away velvet jacket and a long kilt. The kilt is pleated and has kilt styling. As was often the case, the kilt is rather long. He also has a Fauntleroy blouse, but a rather plain one with a white floppy bow. Roy has long hair, but it is not done in ringlets. Roy looks to be about 4-years old. The studio was G.A, Douglass in Manso, Iowa. The portrait is undated, but white whicker furniture often indicated portrais taken at the turn-of-the-20th century in the early 1900s. The abinet card is the classic style which was still common at the turn-of-the-century. At the time both kilt suits and Fauntleroy suits were going out of style which probably explains the rather plain blouse. This also suggests the very early 1900s. A reader writes, "The hair style seems like a bowl cut for bangs at the front. The floppy white bow is different from the more showy colors." Yes the front seems rather plain compared to the rest of the hair style. I think the white bows were considered elegant. They seem more common in the early-20th century than the late-19th century.

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