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HBC has noted American boys wearing beanies during the 1910s, 1920s, and 30s. HBC reader Reverend Antonio Hernandez, who has published a book on scull caps and realted styles like beanies tells HBC that beanies in fact appeared long before the 1910s. Beanies were apparently first worn by adult men. They were distributed to mecahics, welders, ect. for protection from grime, dust, and the weight of the welder's mask. They may have gone home wearing these beanies and of course junior always wanted to dress like dad. Rev. Hernandez reports, "My father wre these, and told me that they date back to the time that he was a teenager. So most likely they were a well-established cap style by then. He is now 90 years old. [In 2001] The beanies he wore were bright orange, for visability I think and bore a commercial stamp of some kind, maybe a welding or mechanics' supply company." HBC can not yet confirm, however, that boys were wearing them before the 1910s." HBC has very limited information on beanies. We have not yet found images from the 1900s, but we do notice them being worn in the 1910s. They were worn in colleges, but we are not yet sure about the chronology. We also notice boys commonly wearing them in the 1920s. We notice an unidentified Texas boy in 1924 wearing a classic beanie. wearing Beanies made a minor comeback in the 1950s, due in large to the popularity of Beany and Cecil, an animated cartoon. Even Beaver Cleaver wore one in one episode--but the never approached their earlier popularity.
We have not yet bfound imahes of boys wearing beanies during the 1900s. That doersv not mean, hpwever, thst they were not worn during the decade. We are still working on our chronology. HBC reader Reverend Antonio Hernandez, who has published a book on scull caps and realted styles like beanies tells HBC that beanies in fact appeared long before the 1910s. Beanies were apparently first worn by adult men. They were distributed to mecahics, welders, ect. for protection from grime, dust, and the weight of the welder's mask. A cap with a bill could not be worn with a mask, just as a baseball catvcher reverses hus cap. They may have gone home wearing these beanies and of course junior always wanted to dress like dad. Rev. Hernandez reports, "My father wore these, and told me that they date back to the time that he was a teenager. So most likely they were a well-established cap style by then. He is now 90 years old. [In 2001] The beanies he wore were bright orange, for visability I think and bore a commercial stamp of some kind, maybe a welding or mechanics' supply company." HBC can not yet confirm, however, that boys were wearing them before the 1910s."
HBC has very limited information on beanies. We have not yet found images from the 1900s, but we do notice them being worn in the 1910s. They were worn in colleges, but we are not yet sure about the chronology.
We also notice boys commonly wearing them in the 1920s. We notice an unidentified Texas boy in 1924 wearing a classic beanie. He is weatriung a beanie witth a sailor suit.
We continue to see boys wearing beanies in the 1930s. One example is a New York City street scene. We also see boys wearing them in Hollywood moovies. They see more common in the movies than than the photgraphic recordm but they defitiley were a cap style worn in he 1930s. They seem to be primarily a working-class style. Tjhois is notable both in the photographic recird and in theur use in movie costuming.
wearing Beanies made a minor comeback in the 1950s, due in large to the popularity of Beany and Cecil, an animated cartoon. Even Beaver Cleaver wore one in one episode--but they never approached their earlier popularity.
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