The book is still in print and had passed the million mark in sales by 1955 but the vogue for emulating the style of dress is long past, even though Hollywood has twice lavished its best talents on the story. Little Lord Fauntleroy had arrived upon the American literary and sartorial scene. And so the sons of countless impressionable American mothers were condemned to velvet page-boy suits, lace collars, and the crowning burden-long, flowing curls. This is their first meeting: “What the Earl saw was a graceful, childish figure in a black velvet suit, with a lace collar, and with lovelocks waving about the handsome, manly little face, whose eyes met his with a look of innocent good-fellowship.” The story was an instant success published as a book the next year, it was a best-seller. Nicholas magazine there appeared the first installment of a romantic novel about a little American boy who inherits a British title and goes to England to live with his rich, grumpy grandfather in a suitably elegant castle.
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