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These fancy blouses were a boys' garment. As far as we know they were not worn by girls. We do not see them in the photographic record. Of course the 19th century photographic record shows girls mostly wearing dresses and not blouse/skirts. Girls for formal occassions were more likely to wear dresses. Blouses and skirts were worn, but we have not yet found portraits of American girls wearing Fauntleroy blouses. We believe that means at the least that it was certainly not very common. Our archive is substantial enough to confirm that. Girls of course did wear blouses, but their collars were normlly more simple than the boys' fancy Fauntleroy blouses. We are not sure how common it was for girls to wear blouses in the 19th century. The photographic record mat be misleading. Mothers probably dressed the girls up in their best outfits to have a studio portrait taken. And the vast proportion of 19th century photograohy is studio portraits. Probably or everyday wear girls may have worn bloues and skirts more commonly than suggested by studio portraits. We are not entirely sure about that yet, at least the actual dimensions involved. But we do not see any evidence that girls wore fancy blouses like the Fauntleroy blouses that the boys wore. Nor do we see many girls wearing dresses with collars anywear apoproaching the huge Fauntleroy collars and floppy bows. We see more girls and women wearing blouses after the turn-of-the 20th century, but nothing like the fancy Fauntleroy blouses that the boys wore.
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