Figure 1.--Many New Zealand schools in the 1960s droped English-style peaked school caps as part of the uniform. Some schools as part of the concern over the destruction of the protective ozone layer, have begun to reintroduce caps. The most common style is the American-style baseball cap.

Most schools have simply dispensed with caps as part of the school uniform. This was the predominant trend by the 1980s. We note one school which adopted a cap similar to American baseball caps. This does not seem to have been a major trend. We are not entirely sure just how common American baseball caps were. We notice a few boys wearing baseball caps, but we only noticed it as a part of the school uniform at one school.

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