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We also see boys wearing Fauntleroy blouses without a jacket or with a light-weight jacket. We think that this was often a seasonal convention. It can get very hot in America during the summer, hotter than in Europe. Americans still dressed formally during the years that the Fauntleroy suit was popular. Boys were, however, were allowed to just wear a blouse without a suit jacket, even for formal occassions. Men commonly wore suit jackets, but it was seen as acceotable for boys just to wear blouses in hot weather. They were all long-sleeve blouses. Short-sleeved shirts for boys had not yet been introduced. A tern developed describing this, 'shirttail youngster' meaning a boy. As far as we can tell, boys mostly wore just their blouses almost entierly if not always just in the summer. We see more boys wearing just the blouses in thw 1900s, but this may reflect the sudden availability of family snapshots after the turn of the 20th century.
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