Figure 1.--Here we see a Vienna boy about 1905 wearing a matching sailor cap with a sailor tunic. Note his sister's large hair bow. |
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We note Austrian boys wearing a range of different headwear types, inclding hats and cas and to a lesserr extent berets. The headwear most accociated with Austrian boys are sailor hats and caps. There does not appear to be any strong association such as the beret in France. Perhaps the Tyrolean or Alpine hat might be considered an Auustrian style. We note a fashionble straw hat in a Decker portait worn at the mid-19th century. The hat band matched the boy's tunic. The sailor suit was so popular in Austria over so long a period that various styles of sailor hats and caps were widely worn. The wide-brimmed sailor hat was not just worn with sailor suits, but was worn with Fauntleroy and other fancy suits. Broad brmimmed sailor hats were very popular from the late-19th to the early 20th century. Then sailor caps began to become more popular. Austrian folk dress includes a kind of Tyrolean hat, but HBC does not know how commonly it was actually worn. We do not some boys wearing them. The German military-styled peaked school cap was also common in the first half of the 20th century. We have also noted Austrian boys wearing a variety of other caps, including the German Schirmmütze.
We note Austrian boys wearing a range of different headwear types, inclding hats which were common in th 19h century.
The headwear most accociated with Austrian boys in the 1ate-9th cbtury was the sailor hat. Austrian folk dress includes a kind of Tyrolean hat, but HBC does not know how commonly it was actually worn. We do not some boys wearing them. There does not appear to be any strong association such as the beret in France. Perhaps the Tyrolean or Alpine hat might be considered an Austrian style. We note a fashionable straw hat in a Decker portait worn at the mid-19th century. The hat band matched the boy's tunic. The sailor suit was so popular in Austria over so long a period that various styles of sailor headwear was worn, including sailor hats were widely worn, a lest by boys from niddke- and upper-class fmilies.
The wide-brimmed sailor hat was not just worn with sailor suits, but was worn with Fauntleroy and other fancy suits. Broad brmimmed sailor hats were very popular from the late-19th to the early-20th century.
we increasingly see Austrian boys weaing caps by the very late-19th century (1890s). Sailor caps began to become very popular and was worn through the 1930s. The boy here about 1905 is a good example (figure 1). The German military-styled peaked school cap was also common in the first half of the 20th century. We have also noted Austrian boys wearing a variety of other caps, including the German Schirmmütze, at leasr after the Anscluss (1937).
The beret is primrily assiciated with French and Belgian boys. We note, however, quite a number of Austrian boys wearing berets.
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