Figure 1.--Here e see an unidentified group at Rhyl, we think about 1930. Rhyl is seaside resort in nothrn Wales. Notice how many of the girls are wearing berets. A British reader tells us,, "This is probably a A day excursion from a northen town, possiblyh a church outing or a workers on the annual work's do. Rhyle is not so popular these days. Llandudno is where day trippers would go instead."

While we have found very few images of English boys wearing berets. We see many Engkish girls wearing bertets during the inter-War era (1920s-30s). Hair bows often quite large dominated girl's dress in the the 1910s, but this changed in the 1920s and we begin to see large numbers of berets. This is the same period when berets wre very popular in America and as in England, mostly by the girls. American girls called them 'tams'--derived from tam o'shanter. That if course was a British term, so this may have also been used in Britain. They were so popular with gurls that some schools adopted them as past of the school uniform. We see far fewer after World War II in the 1940s and 50s. The Beret wreakind of every day wear. When girls dressed up they were more likely to wear hats. We see girls of all ages wearing berets, kncluding teenagers. We are not sure about colors, athough we do note a number of white berets. There are various ways of wearing berets. We mostly see girls pukking thenm down toward the wears. That may be because they seem to have been seen as a cold wethrer garment to keep warm. We see them being less commonly worn durung the summer.

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