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Eight year old boys continued the basic pattern of school age boys. Boys about 6-12 years old wore basically the same styles of headwear with some limited differences. They wore tri-corner hats like their fathers in the 18th century. There may have been other headwear, especially on the frontier, but there were no deducated boys styles. Our information on the early-19th century is very limited. We note Oliver Twist caps which was a Napoleonic War military style, but continued popular into the 1850s presumably because the U.S. Ary adopted it. We notice Scottish style caps after mid-century, but these were motly worn by boys from affluent families and were not very common. Much more common in the 19th century were rounded crown hats. The boy here is wearing one, we think in the 1880s (figure 1). We note boys wearing kepis during the Civil War year and the 1870s. And as sailor suits became popular we begin to see boys wearing sailor headwear. At age 8 years, the caps seem more common than the hats, but we see some 8-year old wearing sailor hats, although they were more common for younger boys. At the end of the century we see 8 year olds wearing a variety of caps. This continued after the turn-of the 20th century. Flat caps emerged as the standard cap style (1910s). The flat cap declined in popularity (1930s), but not cap style was nearly as popular. Some boys from afluent families wore peaked caps. After World War II, baseball caps became increasing popular. Some older boys wore adult-styled hats when dressing up, but this was not common with 8-year old. Headwear in general declined in popularity.
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