Figure 1.--These Minnesota children lookm to be about 4-12 years old. Thr cabinet card is undated, but the niybt abd clyhing syggest thr 1900s. Notice the two younger boys are wearing large white collars with large floppy bows. One boy wears a Fauntleroy collar, the other a Peter Pan or Eton collar (we can't see the tips). Their older brothers wear sammler vertical eyelet collars with small bow ties. The studio was G.D. Burnett on Le Sueur Center, Minnesota.

The shirt/blouse collars and neckwear were not part od the suit, but they wereva very important part of the look of the suit. Men and boys at the time did not wear open collars shirts/nlouses with suits. The shirts and blouses were all buttoned with prominent collars and neckwear. The younger the boy the lager and more prominent the collar and neckwear. The Faunteleriy Craze continued into the early 1900s decade. Thus we continue to see large white collars including Faunrleriy lace and ruffled collars, especially in the early-1900s. Fauntleroy cut-away javlets were becoming less commom and the age of the boys wearing them was declining. but we still see plenty of biys weating Faunrleroy collars and floppy bow with regular sack suit jackets. We also see large non-Fauntletoy collars such as detachable Eton and Peter Pan collars. Older boys wore smaller collars. We see a range of styles including club, Eton, eylet, high (vertical), pointed, wing, and other collars. This is conplicated by the fact that many retailers assigned their own distinctive names to various styles, many with only slight differences. We see whole catalog pages filled with a huge number of detachanle with compamy names and only minor differencess. We also see a wide range of neckwear. Again it was the smallest biys whi has the largest neckwear--huge floppy bows. We see tgese esoecially in the early 1900s. By the end id ge decade we see smaller floopy biwsm but they were still wdely worn by younger boys. The boys here wear somewhat modern looking collars with modern looking neckties (figure 1). Their ries were rather large. We also see a lot of bowties in the 1900s, many rather small in contrast to the neckties.

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