Figure 1.-- Collar buttoning suits continued to be common in the 1880s. we note a portrait of two unidentified Tours boys in 1886. The younger boy wears a collar buttoning suit. His older brother looks to be wearing collar-buttoning jacket as well, but he actually wears a jacket with lapels that are so small it looks like a collar buttoning jacket. Notice how long the younger boy's collar buttoning jackets was. The boys look to be about 7-12 years of age. Notice hiw long the knee pants were. ALso notice one boy wearing white stockings. That was unusual in merica. CDVs continued to be made in Europe after they had become a minor format in America.

We notice collar buttoning suits in the 19th century. They tended to be plain jackets with relatively limited detailing. There werec variety of difference such a collar styling, buttons, pockets, and length of the jacket. This was a very common style for boys, one of the most common. We think social-class factors were involved. These jackets seem especually common with working-class as well as other moderate income boys. We are still working on the chronology. We are not sure about the early-19th century. but we see examples in the mid- and late-19th century. A good example is velvet suits worn by the Parisian Caplain brothers in the 1860s. Collar buttoning suits continued to be common in the 1880s. we note a portrait of two unidentified Tours boys in 1886 (figure 1). The younger boy wears a collar buttoning suit. His older brother looks to be wearing collar-buttoning jacket as well, but he actually wears a jacket with lapels that are so small it looks like a collar buttoning jacket. We continue to see these collar-buttoning suits into the early-20th century. They were commonly done with knee pants. Here the length varied over time.

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