Figure 1.-- Here we see two unidentified American children, presumanbly siblings, in their back yard. The family snapshot is dated 1915. Notice the girl's huge white hair bow. The boy wears a classic flat cap and knickers suit. They look to be pretending to dance.

We continue to see large numbers of girls wearing hair bows in the 1910s. And we see really large ones, although our information is mostly from America. We think this may be the decade in which hair bows were the most common and which were also the largest, at least in America. This probably reflects our very large American archive. But we suspect that the popularity of large hair bows reached their peak in America during the 1910s. We are still working on European trends. A lot of the images we have found show the girls wearing white hairbows. They seem to have been the most common, although we so see colored hair ows as well. There seems to have been seaonal trends here. white was especially popular during the spring and summer. We see both younger girld and teenagers wearing hairbows. We do not notice any significant age trends as concerns ptr-teens and teens.

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