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Younger todlers do a lot of falling down. So we se fall caps, often called pudding caps. Our earliest examples comes from Flandrs, in a Rubens paintung (16th century. Dutch children in the 19th century might wear fall caps. These were sort of early crash helments for children learning to walk. We are not sure how common they were. The one picture here was made about 1825. These were not exclusively Dutch. We are also not sure how the decoration on the caps may have varied among countries. The Duch example we have found is straw rather than the heavily padded examps we have been found. We think the see more heavily cushioned or paddeding arangerment wre more common. They seem most common in the 18th century.
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