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American boys in the 1890s commonly wore suits and they were commonly worn with with blouses. At the times we do not see boys wearing shirts or even shirts being advertised for them. We notice many different styles of blouses and shirt waists offered in the Best Department Store Fall and Winter catalog. This was an important New York City department store which published catalogs and is now a major source of fashion information. Much of our information for 1892-93 comes from this catalog which was well illustrated. Some of the terminology in the catalog seems to be company-specific and not commonly used terms. Notice the Fauntleroy blouse on the previous page. Fauntleroy blouses were common in 1892, but mostly white. We rarely see ones in the photographic record like the Best blouse shown on the previous page. We note coniderable variation bothn in the style of the blousev andv in he fabric used, ee note not only cotton, but linen and silk. Blouses were morelikely to be done in silk than thev shirt waists. Wevare not sure why that was.
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