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Little Lord Fauntleroy outfits : Standard lapel jacket types Fauntlerooy trim
Fauntleroy Outfits: Standard Lapel Jackets--Fauntleroy Trim
Figure 1.--These unidentified American boys look to be about 1-6 years old. The older boys wears a standard double-breasted jacket. Notice the high cut lapel. The Fauntleroy blouse has a large ruffled collar, but withoutmatching cuffs turn it into a Fauntleroy outfit. He also has a floppy bow, but rather modst on. Notice the flap pockets. The portrait is unfdated, but we would guess was dated around 1900. The pants are knee pants as was usually the case for boys this age at the time. He also has black long stockings and high-top shoes that look to be lasceups. The studio was Peelstrom in Madrid Iowa.
Not all Fauntleroy-looking outfits employed Fauntleroy jackets. We see many boys wearing standard suit jackets. these were gthe same jackets that boys were wearing begor yhe Fsuntleroy Craze. They were made to look like Fauntleroy suits by adding the fancy trim, especially large white ruggled collars and also often matching wrist cuffs as well. There were different options here. Mothers could just add a fancy pin-on collar Or she could choose a fancy blouse dripping with ruffled including some with lace trim. You can often tell the diiference because Fauntleroy blouses often had wrist cuffs that matched the collar as can be seen on the previous page. Fauntleroy collars could be huge and were so flamboyant that any jacket paired with one of these collars took on the Fauntleroy look. There were many gradients in between these two choices. Many of these jackets could be worn with other collars for an entirely different look. This was useful for boys who could then continue wearing the jacket as they got a little older. Other trim included bows and sashes. Floppy bows were especially popular, at least with mothers, and added a splash of color. common and could be huge, but were optional. The boys here are not wearing floppy bows, but many boys at the time did. Sashes on the other hand were not nearly as common.
