![]() ![]() The size of the collars varied, but some were quite large. The white collar worn with a Buster Brown suit was always a wide white one. This white collar is one of the most important characteristic feature of a Buster Brown suit. The classic Buster Brown suits wore worn with a broad white collar. Few of the suits had back buttons, unlike the smocks that some of the boys of the same age also wore. The placement of the buttons on a Buster Brown suit varied. I'm not sure, however, if such bright colors were generally worn. Some of the cartoons of Buster Brown show red suits. Boys' clothes at the time were not colorful like modern clothes. I'm not sure what colors were most popular for Buster Brown suits. It was worn with either long over the knee stockings or three-quarter length socks. This was shorter than an actual smock and was designed to show bloomer pants worn above the knee. We note an unidentified boy in 1907.Ī Buster Brown suit was a smock-like suit, which hung below the waist, usually to just above the knees. They may have been worn in the late 1890s, but we have noy yet found examples. This sas a style as best we can tel that was worn in the 1900s and 1910s. We do not yet have enough Buster Brown suits arcived on HBC to build a chronology. European boys may have worn similat tunic outfits, but no where in Europe were they as opopular as in America. This is due to the fact that Buster Brown was an American cartoon and noit circulated in Europe. The term Buster Brown suit was only used in America. The Buster Brown tunic with the destinctive wide white collar was an especially popular American style. ![]() Tunic outfits were commonly worn both in America and Europe. Buster Brown suits were worn by boys from about 5 to 8 years of age, but some mothers dressed older boys in them for a few additional years. One of a boy's first suits was often a Buster Brown suit. ![]() Toddlers at that time often wore dresses or smocks. It does appear, however, to have been most popular after the turn of the century. I'm not sure if it was a style picked up by the Buster Brown comic strip or an entirely new style created by the cartoonist. I'm not sure who introduced the style or precisely when. Note that the boy wears a sailor tunic rather than a classic Buster Brown tunic.īuster Brown suits were popular for younger children in the early 20th Century. Note this boy from the Buster Brown movie series has the classic Dutch Boy bangs often associated with Buster Brown suits. They were generally worn with long stockings or three quarter-length socks. Figure 1.-Buster Brown suits with bloomer style, above the knee pants were popular for boys at the turn of the century. ![]()
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