Figure 1.--This boy had a cabinent card portrait taken in the Beebe studio located in Denver Colorado. The portrait is undated, but was probably taken about 1890. He wears a striped floppy bow with what looks kike an Eton collar. |
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We see American boys wearing very small collars in the 1850s and 60s done in the Eton shape, but rarely worn with bows. Boys in the 70s might wear a small bow looking like a bowtie with their Eton collars. This changed in the 1880s-90s when boys might wear quite large floppy bows with their Eton collars. This was most common for youngr boys, but we see older boys into their younger teens wearing them. We see large numbers of boys wearing large Eton collars are Eton-like collars with floppy bows in the 1880s and 90s. A good example is two Reading brothers. This was in sharp contrast to England wear bows were less common. After the turn of the century, it became more common for American boys to wear Eton collars more like English boys with no bow at all. This was the general pattern by the 1910s. Eton collars were worn with all kinds of different suits. This included kilt suits. A good example is an unidentified New York boy, we believe in the 1880s.
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