Figure 1.-- Boys did not always wear sailor style caps with sailor suits. We see many boys wearing military-style school caps. These were caps woth leather bills (brims). These caps were very common in Germany. They were not worn by all primary-school children, but were generally worn at the secondary level. There were slight variations in these caps, but they style was remarably similar. This snapshot is undated, but was probanly taken in the 1920s.

Boys did not always wear sailor style caps with sailor suits. We see many boys wearing military-style school caps. These were caps woth leather bills (brims). These caps were very common in Germany. They were not worn by all primary-school children, but were generally worn at the secondary level. There were slight variations in these caps, but they style was remarably similar. We note them in the 19th century through the 1930s, but see few examples in the 1940s, especially after the end of the war. If it was an actual school cap it had different colored bands. The caps were worn to school, but we also see them being worn in non-school situations. They were of course worn with other outfits and were not a style sopecifically designed for a sailor suit.

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