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Material/fabric is something that is very difficult to determine from the photographic record. The Brooklyn boy on the previous page looks to be wearing a velvet Fauntleroy jacket and matching kilt-skirt. Velvet is one of the easiest fabrics to isentify froma photograph, but there is no way to be sure. Kllt duits ere also done in wool suiting materials, meaning fabrics used to maker suits, including kilt suits. The boy here is wearing a classic dark Fauntleroy kilt suit that clearly is not velvet, but we can't tell just what fabric it is. It looks like a lighter-weight, probably a cotton fabric. Here the differences involved both cost and seasonality. Velvet was an expensive material. Of course suits for younger boys did not require material. Velvet sas also a materioal suitable for cold weather, a relatively heavy material. It should be srressed at a time when Fauntleroy suits were popular, a larger portion of the Anerican population lived in orther states with its colder climate than is the case today. Velvet could be done in lighter weights, but the heavier weights seem more common. Of course an optioin for summer eer is to just wear the fancy blouse and kilt-skirt without the jacket.
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