Figure 1.--Here we see a boy about 10-years old wearing a striped Fauntleroy bliouse. Often these collars had ruffled fringes. Boys this age by the 1900s did not swear classic Fauntleroy suits, but rather regullar lapel jackets. In the 1890s, floppy bows were aksonadded, but this became less common un the 1900s, especially large bows. The school here is unidentifed, but click on the image to see the class.

There were different shirt-like garments in the 19th century. This included blouses, shirt wairs, and shirts. this would change in the 20th century, but was still common in the 1900s decade. A lot of boys still wore blouses. We alsosee shirt waists, meaning essentially a shirt without a collar. This is what was wirn with stachable collars. We don't get to see much of the shirts and bloses worn because so many mays wore suit jackets covering up the sirts and blouses. We can tell about the wrist cuffs that they were long sleeved shirts and blouses. While Fauntleroy suitgs were declining in popularity, we see a lot of boys even younger teens earing Fauntleroy blouses. These were not the huge elabnorate blouses, nut they had large ruffled collars, often dome with patterns. We note that girls' dresses had elbow-length sleeves, but the boy still all had long sleeves. And we see the collars. Boys wore collared shirts. Shirt waists wore with detachable collars were still common at the time, but less commonly worn at primary schools. We do see some in the highschools. We note both pointed collars and rounded collars. We do not see many Eton collars, at least worn by most American boys, but we do see some in the city schools. They were most poular with boys from well-to-do families or at least families in comfortable circumstances.

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