English Boys' Headwear: Glengaries
Figure 1.--Glengaries are normally seen as a Scottish cap style. They were often worn with kilts, but not always. We note portraits of English boys as well wearing glengaries. We are not sure how common this was. We have a feeling it was more of an upper-class style and not very common.Most of the portraits we have noted ae from the 19th century. They may have been worn by boys with Scottish family connections. More likely may have been that the Queen Victoria and the Royal fanily had made Scottish styles popular. This CDV was taken in Manchester, we think in the 1860s.
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Glengaries are normally seen as a Scottish cap style. They were often worn with kilts, but not always. We note portraits of English boys as well wearing glengaries. We are not sure how common this was. We have a feeling it was more of an upper-class style and not very common.Most of the portraits we have noted ae from the 19th century. They may have been worn by boys with Scottish family connections. More likely may have been that the Queen Victoria and the Royal fanily had made Scottish styles popular.
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