American Fauntleroy Headwear: Sailor Cap Styles


Figure 1.--This cabinet card shows an unidentified boys wearing a classic Fauntleroy suit with a soft sailor cap. He is on a period bicycle the studio used as a prop. The boy only looks to be about 5 years old. We doubt if he could ride a bike. It looks to have a pneumatic tires. We would guess the portrait was taken in the 1890s, perhaps the early-90s.

There were two principal styles of sailor caps worn with Fauntleroy suits. We note one boy wearing the saucer style of sailor cap. They were common because they were based on the naval uniform style actually worn by American enlisted sailors at the time. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). We also notice boys wearing soft sailor caps. The saucer-style caps were fairly standard. The softcaps were more varied. Both were widely worn by boys at the time. These were the two main sailor caps at the time. There also were admiral or commdore caps, but these were much less common than the saucer and soft styles. Unlike the saucer-style caps, the soft caps boys wore Fauntleroy suits were not an American naval uniform style. After the saucer caps, American sailors began wearing swabbie caps, but this as the Fauntleroy suit was going out of style. The swabie caps were a rare cap style we have never seen being worn with Fauntleroy suits.







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