Figure 1.--This divided back photo postcard is a portrair of a boy and his older sister. They are not identified and the card is not dated. We would guess that it was taken in the 1910sor early-20s. Note how full the crown if the boy's flat cap is. His sister wears a wide-brimmed straw hat.

We notice English boys wearing many different styles of these flat caps. They may have been different terms for the varous styles, but we are unaware of such terms at this time. The principal detinction in the various styles was the crown. Some of these caps were quite flat while others had much higher more rounded or fuller crowns. We see these caps both with and without crown buttons. Some of these caps with fuller crowns begin to look somewhat like peaked school caps, but the peaks or brims were done differently, generally not as wide. And the crowns of flat caps were not as molded to the head as was the case for a school cap.

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