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We continue to see some overlap between American boys and girls headwear, but basically headwear was gender specific. Mostly it was younger boys who wore some of the same styles as girls. But this was changing. Fewer boys were wearing broad-brimed hats. In fact fewer boys were wearing hats at all and this included yonger boys. This was not the case for girls. The girls were still very commonly wearing hats, including wide-brimmrd hats, although the sizes of the brims declined during the decade. We see quite a numbr of girls not wearing hats and other headwear. This was because hair bows became very stylish-- and the arger the bows the more stylish. And you coudn't wear both nows and hats at the same time--at least easily. The only major exception was winter stocking caps, although even here there could be gender differences like colors. For the most part we have stribgly gender specific headwear in the 1910s. Headwear became more specific in the 1910s. After the turn if the 20th century we see more boys wearing caps rather than hats. Throughout the 19th century boys commonly wore hats. After the turn-of-the century caps became increasingly popular with boys. And girls rarely wore any kind of caps. A rare exception was sailor caps, but this dis mot last very long..
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