Figure 1.--Here we see boys in the fall wearing cold weather caps. Notice two of the boys wears winter helmets. One boy has the ear flaps up, the other bouy wears them down. The other two boys wear a baseball cap amd stocking cap. |
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We no longer see flat caps in the 1940s. Some most younger boys wore opeaked caps which matched suits. This was a dressy style an most common with upper-class families. Older boys might wear an adult style like a fedora. This looks a little strange today, but we not quite a few examples in the photographic record. In genetral dressy headwear with suits was rapidly going out of style, but some families comtinued to see it as part of dressing up. Some younger boys wore berets. Boys were increasingly wearing baseball cap, but only for play or casual wear. They were still not nearly as popular as they woere to become. Some boys wore naval swaby caps. The Boy Scouts made a major uniform change in the early 40s and replaced the traditional Scout hat with a military-style campaign cap. Cubs retained the same tradituiinal peaked caps. We notice various styles of winter caps, including helmets caps sith ear flaps that could be pulled up. I mostly remember them being up, but I suppose boys living further north might have pulled them down more commonly. Stocking caps were also popular. I seem to recall boys wearing them more than girls, but I am not positive about that.
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