Figure 1.--This unidentified boy in a cabinet card portrait wears a natty corduroy suit. He has age white collar, onsured by a floppy bow. We suspect it is a rounded detachable callar rather than an Eton cillar with pointed tios. It is a collar-buttoming suit with Norfolk styling. He looks to be about 10-years old. Corduroy was a relatively inexpensive mterial, but this boy looks very fashionanly dressed. The outfit and the mount suggesrs the 1890s to us. Notice the near center part, We begin to ee actul center parts t the turn-of the century. The [hotographer is the DeMorate Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We see some knicker suits, both the jacket and pants. We have no information on the early-19th century, but we see mostly knee pants suits in the late-19th cebtury. We only see suits done in corduroy rather than just the pants, nut suits were usually worn for studio portraits. Corduroy suits were, however, a relatively small portion of the suits we have noted in the ohotographic record. We have found both collar-buttoning and lapel jackets. Norfolk styling seems popular at the turn-of-the century. We have not yet found examples of vests, but are archie at this tike has very few examples. In most instances we notice the the 19th century suits done with knee pants. We see cord suits in the 20th century, but they were less common. Corduroy knickers were, however, almost universal in the 1910s-30s. This often meant just pants, but there were also cord suits, especially in the 1910s-20s. They vwere mostly dome with knickers. We also notice corduroy shorts, but they were not as common.

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