Figure 1.--We have noted some younger apanese children wearing wide-brimmed hats with rounded crowns. They were not excceding wide brims, butv wide-brimmed hats note-the-less. We have seen older primary boys wearing them less commonly. They were normslly worn with chin straps. |
We have noted some younger Japanese children wearing wide-brimmed hats with rounded crowns. These were not floppy caps that could be folded up, but a stiffer construction. They were not excceding wide brims, but hats wirh destinctive brims none-the-less. We have seen these hats with brims of various withs. As far as we can tell, they all came with rounded crowns, although here there were some variations. We have seen mostly younger boys wearing them. but some older boys also wore them. They were made with chin straps, but not all the boys used them. This was a style worn by both boys and girls. The colors we have noted or white or shades of white as well as blue caps. The white caps seem to have the widest brims.
Many Japanese schools that did not have unifoerms adopted caos, often brightly colored caos. As gar as we can tell, these wude-brimmed caps were only adopted by schools which had uniforms.
We have noted some younger Japanese children wearing wide-brimmed hats with rounded crowns. These were not floppy caps that could be folded up, but a stiffer construction. There was some variation here. The white hat the boy here is wearing seems very stiff. Some of the blie caps we have seen seem sodter.
The hats had substantial brims, but nothing like the wide-brimmed sailor hats European boys wonce wore. They were not excceding wide brims, but hats wirh destinctive brims none-the-less. We have seen these hats with brims of various withs.
As far as we can tell, they all came with rounded crowns, although here there were some variations. Not only is the heighth of the crowns some what different, but the stiffness of the material and construction gives a somewhat different look in these hats.
We have seen younger childrens wearing these hats most commonly. They were only worn in primary schools. Most available images show mostly younger primary children wearing them. We have seen some images of older primary boys wearing them, including boys up to 12 years of age. We are not sure why most available images are of yoinger boys. As far as we know, schools with these chats adopted them for the whole school and not just the younger boys. We have never heard of a school having different headwear for different afe children, except for the kindergarden children.
These hats came with chin straps. We think they all did, but here are not sure. As far as we can tell almost all of them had chin straps. Bithe white and blue ones had chin straps.The boy here can be seen wearing his hat with a chin strap (figuure 1). The boys did not, however, always wear them. Some schools eem to have had rules about wearing the chin straps. Notice the boy here wears his chin strap hehind his ear. We do not know how common that was. We notice other schools where the children are not using the chin straps. A good example is a Takayama school. Some schools may have had rules about wearing the chin straps.
These wide-brimmed hat were a style worn by both boys and girls. At some schools both the boys and girls wore these hats. Some schools, however, had different styles of hats for boys and girls.
The colors we have noted or white or shades of white as well as blue caps. The white caps seem to have the widest brims. Many Japanese school caps were made in bright colors, especially yellow. We have not seen these wide-brimmed hats made un these bright colors. The only we have seen are the white and blue ones. But that does not mean there were not ones made in bright colors. Our archives on these hats is still very limited.
We are not sure about the type of schools where these hats were worn. We think they were worn at both private and public schools, but here we need more information.
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