Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows an unidentified English boy wearing a sailor suit. He kooks go be about 6 years old. He wears a straw rounded crown hat with twin streamers. Note they seem ton match the light-colored suit. . The portrait is undated, but we would guess was takn in the 1880s. The studio was Milman Brown at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.

We note boys with both single and double streamers. We are unable at this time to assess the relative prevalence of these two options for streamers because of our limited archive. The caps seem to have mostly been done with single streamers or at least streamers that did not hang separetly. We note hats with both single and double streamers. We are not sure yet which was more common. It is very difficult to assess because so many of the portraits were front views. One or two streamers were possible by using the two end of the ribbon that went around the base of the crown forming the hat band. But for this reason we do not see hats with more than two streamers. Nor do we know if there was any conventions associated with gender or age. We think probably not.

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