Figure 1.--This studio portrait is undated. We would guess it was taken in the 1930s because of the patterened knee socks. The portrait probably came in a paper display folder. The boy looks to be about 6 years old. He wears what we would call a chaufer's cap which matched his short pants flannel suit. The studio is unknown.

We note a style of peaked cap, but are unsure what the proper mname is. It looks to us rather like a chauefer's cap. Instead of the more familiar rounded-crown peaked cap, this cap has a rather puffed out crown. There may have been a button cap. The extent of the puuffing varied. We are not sure about the chronology of these caps, but we note then in The early 1930s through the 1930s. They could have been worn in the 1890s as well, but we do not see them in the 1940s, especially after World War II. They were done in the same material and color as the suit. We do not notice very many examples of this cap in the photographic record, but we do find a few examples. It seems to have been thought of as a fashionable style, not as conservative as the standard peaked cap.

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