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Boys also wore the fancy Fauntleroy bloues with regular suits. When we talk about Fauntleroy suits, we are generally talking about the classic Fauntleroy suits with small cut away jackets, fancy blouses, and knee pants. This included both winter suits and summer suits dobe in lighter masterail. The same fancy bluses were used with both. A good example of these suits is identical Fauntleroy suits worn by two unidentified Philadelphia brothers, we believe in the 1890s. The same blouses worn with the cut-awau jacjets were worn with regular lapel suits. Mothers simply had their boys wearing the regular jacjets open and not buttoned up. This allowed the fancy blouses to be seenand suitably admired by moher and her friends. We begin to see more of the second option at about 7 years of age. We see regular suits in various styles, but double-breasted jackets were common. The blouses could have huge collars and and often often elaborate cuffs as well. They were commonly, but not always worn with large floppy bows. While we see fewer boys by age 7 years wearing Fauntleroy suits, of course this did not mean that this was the age that boys stopped wearing a range of Fauntleroy trim and garments with regular suits. We see quite a bit of that in photographic record and this option becomes more and more important with older age groups. This almost always involved large ruffled collrs snd optional floppy bows.
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