Figure 1.--This looks like the vwomen and girls in a family, several generations. They are all wearing boaters, except the baby wearing a bonnet. Notice the difference in the gurls' dresses--one flouncy dress the other in a sailor dress. The photograph is undated, but looks like the late-1890s to us, basically the turn of the 20th century.

Girls headwear has varied greatly over time. Headwear was very cimmon in the 19th century. We mostly see girls wearing hats in the 19th century, although bonnets were also very popular. Unlike the boys, girls did not wear caps--except to some extenbt the Scottish bonnets. We notice the most simple hats up to the rediculously elabotate. Hats could be large and elaborate in the late-19th and very early-20th centuty. Here there was a complication. Women and girls liked fancy hats, but they also like to showcase their hair. But hats covered up their hair. So they had to make a fashion choice. Some hats such as rounded-crown hats were similar to boys' hats, but the styles and decoration were mostly different. We note many heavily decorated straw hats. All sorts of fruit and floweers were sadded. A good example is an unidentified family in the 1870s. We also see the rather plain boaters. They were commonly considered a man's style, but we notice girls and women wearing them, especially at the turn of the century. Sailor styles were slso popular. Girls continued to wear hats in the 20th centyry. Bonnets disappearedm but we still see hats. Berets and tams sended to bevworn informally and for school, but hats were normally chosen when dressing up. Lrge hsir bows becme populr in the 1910s. And fir the most part girls wioth lrge hairbows could not eear a hat. Helmet-type hats were popular in the 1920s, they seemed to go woith the trendy bobs. Hats gradually declinging for girls in the 20th century, but they were still worn into the 1950s. After that they were much less common. Many girls in the late-20th century grew up without ever wearing a hat. This was even more the case in the 21st Century. You rarely see them snymore.

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