need help on antique clothes

Hello I found this Framed antique clothes signed Genald Ritenour 1911.

I wonder if you could tell me some background on it? I couldn't find anything directly to a designer in 1911.

 

I can not see the back because it is framed.

 

It looks like a child's costume.

Debora

 

so, do you think there is collectable value?

 

Could you tell us how you acquired it and where?

Debora

 

Before determining value, it would be helpful to know what it is. Would it fit a child?

Debora

 

It is from a local estate sale review photo. No I have not bought it or checked it in person yet. So I can not tell the back.

 

So no additional photographs and the estate sale isn't providing any additional information. Can you tell us at least if... Is it from a part of the world that might have had plays/pageants that portrayed Native Americans in 1911?

Debora

 

It in the suburb of Chicago area.

 

Could be Gerald Ritenour of DuPage County then. Birth date right. To my eye, doesn't look like a genuine article of Native American clothing. And doesn't look, again to my eye, to date to 1911. But someone valued it enough to frame it.

Debora

 

It does look like it might be a child's costume (depending on size). The materials are not typical of Native American clothing (machine stitched white denim, metal eyelets, commercial boot lace).

 

Did he die young? Maybe this had sentimental value to his family.

 

I am by no stretch an expert on this but those laces look pretty new

 

I agree, they look recent synthetic.

 

Could be replacements, there is wear on the red cloth.

 

No. He was around in a much later census.

Debora

 

As it does not look like traditional Native American work, I would not expect it to have much value unless you can prove that Gerald Ritenour was of some significance.

 

It does appear to be a family item of sentimental value.

Debora