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American Fauntleroy Blouses: Chronology

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Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrait shows two boys about 7-11 years old and their baby brother. The two boys wear matching Fauntleroy blouses and floppy bows. A naturl clor whicker chair and the moubt syle sugget to that the portrait was taken about 1900. The studio was Bangs in Broken Bow, Nebraska.

Mrs. Burnett published her book Little Lord Fauntleroy launching the Fauntleroy craze (1885). Fancy blouses were seen before these, but not as commonly or as fancy and cerainly not as large as we see with the Fauntkeroy craze. TheseFauntleroy blouses were poppular for two decades. These blouses appeared in vast numbers and increasingly elaborate decoration after publication of the book to fill the resulting demand demand for Little Lord Fauntleroy blouses. We see them in the mid- and late-1880s, but they were most common and most elaborate in the 1890s. We contunue to see them in the 1900s, especially the early-1900s. Some were modest such as the one wotn by New York boy Freddiec Deveraux in 1892. Others were much more elaborate. We not only see the elaboate blouses designed to be worn with Fauntleroy suits, br we also see fancy blouses for older boys that were worn without suit jackets. The chronplogy of these two types were slighly different, but very similar. These blousces cotunued to be poplar through the turn-of-the 20th century. A good example is Raymond J.D. Webb, probably about 1900. These blouses begin to decline notably in popularity after about 1905. We often begin to see simpler Fauntleroy blouses. A good example is Roy Swanson in the early-1900s.

The 1870s

We see some fancy blouses in the 1870s before the Fauntleroy craze, but not as commonly or as fancy and cerainly not as large as we see with the Fauntkeroy craze. We think they were more common in France.

The 1880s

Mrs. Burnett published her book Little Lord Fauntleroy launching the Fauntleroy craze (1885). TheseFauntleroy blouses were poppular for two decades. These blouses appeared in vast numbers and increasingly elaborate decoration after publication of the book to fill the resulting demand demand for Little Lord Fauntleroy blouses. We see them in the mid- and late-1880s.

The 1890s

Fauntleroy blouses were most common and most elaborate in the 1890s. Mrs. Burnett publisher her book in 1885. It took a few years for manufcturers to ramp up the production of ready made Fauntleroy blouses. The Fauntleroy style was by the 1890s well established and the popularity conontinued throughout the decade. The photographic shows a substabtial number of American boys wearing Fauntleroy blouses. Some were modest such as the one wotn by New York boy Freddiec Deveraux in 1892. Others were much more elaborate, like the ones worn by two Pennsylvania brothers in 1897. We not only see the elaboate blouses designed to be worn by younger boys with Fauntleroy suits, but we also see fancy blouses for older boys that were worn without the classic cut-away Fauntleroy suit jacket. They tended to be somewhat less extremne than the blouses for younger boys made to be worn with the classic suits. The chronplogy of these two types were slighly different, but very similar. The blouses seen here are a good example (figure 1). They might be worn with a regular jacket, but older boys did not usually wear the classic Fauntleroy jackets.

The 1900s

Fancy Faunteleroy blousces cotinued to be popular through the turn-of-the 20th century. In fact we see some of the mostfancy ones at the turn-of-the century and the early-1900s. We are just beginning to assess this in detail. We see Fauntleroy suits declining un poularity in the 1900s, but Fauntleroy blouses worn with out the clssic cut-away jackers seemed to have persisted a little longer. This has proven a little tricky to follow in detail because so few cabinet cards and other portraits are dated, but we have begun to work on the chronoogy. The cabinet card mounts can help to dare the portraits riughlky, but not precisely. We definitely see very elaborate Fauntleroy blousesin the 190ss. A good example is Raymond J.D. Webb, probably about 1900. The blouses begin to decline notably in popularity after about 1905. We often begin to see simpler Fauntleroy blouses. A good example is Roy Swanson in the early-1900s. We also see less elaborate Fauntkleroy blouses, often dne in light-colored pttern. hy hd the large collrs, but often just with lacy trim and not elaborate rulled and lace collars.

The 1910s

Classic Fauntleroy blouses were much common in the 1910s, even early in the decade.







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