American Classic Fauntleroy Blouses: Chronology

Figure 1.-- Here we have an unidentified Texas boy wearing a classic Fauntleroy blouse. The cabinet card is undated, but we would guess was taken about 1895. He looks to be about 6 years old. The studio was Thomason and Lffer in Fort Worth, Texas.

We see fancy blouses appearing before the Fauntleroy blouse made their fashion appearance. The actual classic Fauntleroy blouses appeard about 1885 when Ms. Burnett published her book--Little Lord Fauntleroy The book was at first serialized and this received enormous attentuion. he phityiographic record shows that very large numbers of boys wore them. There was a social-class factor involved here, but it should not be thought that only boys from rich families wore them. The Fauntleoy blouse was worn by a broad spectrum of American boys, especially the midde-class. We see these blouses up to about 1905-- a 20 year period. This was the period in which the Fauntleroy Craze was most pronounced. We see the popularity declining by the turn of the 20th century and the notably by about 1905. Not only do we see fewer boys wearing them, but increasingly younger boys as well. Less fancy blouse versions continued into the 1910s. These blouses were very common during this period, probasbly more common than the full Fauntleroy suit.

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