Figure 1.-- This portrait of an unidentified boy was taken in Greenpoint, A Brooykln, New York neighborhood, we think in the 1870s, probsbly the lzate-70s. He wears what looks like a collar-buttoning suit with double-breasted styling and knee pants. His bow is small enough that wec are fairly sure that the boy isearijg a collar-buttoningb jacket. He looks to be about 9 years old. The studio was Henry W. Biffar in Greenpoint..

Double-breasted jackets like single-breasted were sack suits hich for for the most part had lapels. had lapels. We think a few may be collar-buttoning jasckets without lapels. A good example may be the jackets the boys here may be wearing. The problem is that they are decked out in good-sized floppy bows and we can't be sure if they are collar buttoning or have small, high set lapels. The high-set lapels were aopular style a we see many portraits with this style. Mixing cilar-buttoning with souble bvreastedc sylin seems to be much less common. althoughh the popularity of large floppy bows at the time makes this fifficult to assess withh any surity. We believe that we have found a few images withe collar-bittoning style. But this clearly was not a very common style. This is possible in the 1870s when the collars and nows were relatively small.

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