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We do not have much information on French headwear during the 19th century. Although France was the birth place of photogtraphy (1839), for some reason we have non veen able to find large numbers of 19th century French images. We are not sure just why this is. It may represent to some extent relative prevalence, but othr factors may be involved. We have, however, found a few photographic images to work with, especially after the apperarance of the CDVs (1860s). We see boys wearing a variety of different headwear styles in the 19th century. We think that the beret was worn througout the 19th century, but was mostly worn in rural areas. Sailor hats appeared after mid-century. We see somw middle-class and wellm off children wearing wide-brimmed sailor hats. We know much more about the 20th century. We have found more photographs dated after the turn-of-the 20th century. We see boys wearing sailor hats and caps. The boy on the previous page wears a good example of a saillor cap (figure 1). Broad-brimmed sailor caps were still worn with relatively level brims (1900s). Styles changed with turned up and down brims (1910s). The turned down style was especially popular. Berets were also common in the early-20th century. Older boys might wear flat caps in the inter-War era. After World War II, headwear becomes more informal and less common. We see a few boys wearing peaked caps at mid-century. By the end if the century, American baseball caops were becoming popular.
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