Figure 1.--Here we see a Maine boy with a page/Dutch boy hair cut. Note the hair at his side covers his earss. His bangs are not cut straight across his forehead. He wears a sailor suit, knee pants and long stockings. He looks to be about-5 years old. The portrait is undated, but the loc-cut shoes help date the portrait to the 1920s. This is helpful in dating the three-ply fold over paper frame. The studio was Dora Clark Task in Lewiston, Maine.

Over the ears cuts were probably the least common of the three page/Dutch boy bangs options. We are still working on this assessment. We have, however, found quite a number of examples as our American archive is so extensive. Interestingly, the length of the hair at the side appears to have been longer in illustrations such as ads (Dutch Boy Paints) and the comic (Buster Brown) than was actually common at the time. This can easily be seen in the photographic record. We do see boys with hair over the ears, but they seem less common that having the side hair cut at or above the ear. he over the ears style could be left plain or could be styled in some way. We see a range of such cuts. It seems to be a style adopted by doting mothers as the popularity of ringlet curls for boys declined at the end of the 19th century.

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