Figure 1.--Here we see an American boy wearing a double-breasted tunic suit basically done in the Buster Brown style. Notice the open construction. We note this style at the turn-of-the-20th century. They do not seem very common. All we know about this portrait was that it was taken at the Klauber Studio in Louisville, Kentucky. We would estimate that it was taken about 1905-10. |
We note a few portraits of boys at the turn-of-the-20th century wearing an early open style of sandal. The images suggest that the style appeared about 1900-10. We are not precisely sure about the chronology and do not yet have any catalog offeings for this style of sandal. We have very limited information on this style. Based on the photographic record, it does not appear to have been very popular. We see many more images of boys wearing different styles of closed-toe sandal.
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