United States Collar-buttoning Jackets: Styles--Fancy Jackets


Figure 1.--This tintype portrait in a thermoplastic case is undated, but looks like the 850s to us. Notice his fancy colar-buttoning jacket with wide sleeves. It looks to have been influenced by sailr styling. Note that the jacket des not buttn tughtly at the nbeck and an undershirt or dickie is vsible.

We notice many collar buttoning jackets that were rather plain jackets. Curiously even the classic Fauntleroy cut-away jacket was a very plain jacket. And the same was true with the collar-buttoning jackets used for Fauntlroy suits. And this plain styling was the most common trend for collar buttoning jackets. It was, however, noy the only approach. We so see some fancy collar-buttoning jackets with elaborate decoration such as stripes. We do not think that this was a hugely popular style, but we do see some. Here the growing popularity of the sailor suit may have been a factor. Some were done with wide sleeves, a popular style at mid-century, So far most of tese fancy jackets we have found come from the mid-19th century. This was primarily a period before the CDV which became popular in the 1860s. Thus the number of images was more limited than after the appearance of the CDV.






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