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Historical English Girls' Headwear: 20th Century Chronology--The 1910s
Figure 1.--Here we see a temperence dmonsration in Grimnsby. Thus is a seaport in Lincolnshire (mortheastern England).
The date is notable, June 1914 -- only a few weeks before World War I erupted. Here we see the junior contingent--all girls. There may have been boys in a separate group, but the temperence movement was one that women for good reason took up with a special fervor. The girls are done im white dresses, sashes, and their best headwear. Not one girl is bare headed. Most of the girls here wear wide-brimmed hats, both decorated and undecorated. We see a few bonnets, but no tams. It is likeky that all of the girls had tans for everyday and schoolwear. Also notice all the down-turned brim.
English girls in the 1910s continued wearing broad-brimmed hats when dressing up, almost always with rounded crowns. We see both decorated and undecorated wide-brimmed hats. These hats in the 1910s tended to have down-turned brims, something we did not see to any extent earlier. Younger boys also wore these down-tuned wide-brimmed hats, although the boys' hats were not decorated. . These down-turned brims aee one of the primary way to differetiate between the 1900s and 1910s when assessing undated images. Some less fashionable mostly youngrr girls still wore bonnets which also might be decorated. Tams continued to be the most common headwear for girls. They were everyday wear and still very common for school. Both boys and girls still commonly headwear to school, mostly tams for the girls and caos for the boys. Most girls had tams for evertday wear, but broad-brimmed hats for dressing up. Girls for decades only wore hats, bonnets, and tams, never caps. World War I erupoted (1914), eventually engulfing almost all of Europe, including Britain which usually tried to stay out of Contunental wars. The War dominated the rest of of the decade. One impact was a general decline in elaborate fashion. After World War I, broad-brimmed hats began to disappear.
