Figure 1.--This Bristol school class was on a school field trip to a newspaper, the Bristol 'Evening World'. The paper took the portrait as a souvenir for the children. It looks to be a girls' school which took younger boys as well. Notice the girls helmet-style hats. One of the boys has long hair. The portrait is undated, but would have been taken about 1930. A British reader tells us, "The boy with long hair is interesting. He has long hair at a time when this was not very common for boy of school age. He has also has buttoned his jacket the wrong way. Boys at the time fairly commonly attend girls' schools until the age 7vyears at the time, especially if they had a sister at the school . I guess he will most likely have his hair cut around his 7th birthday. This is more common today where there are a range of hair styles, but was nigt very common in the 1930s." We might add that we also see boys of staff members at girls schools, but here the number of boys is more than the children of stsff members would suggest.

We have noted several different types and styles of headwear girls to school. There is no one style worn by the girls that was as common as the peaked caps worn by the boys. The one boys' headwear style that proved popular for the girls was the boater. Soon we see more girls wearing boaters than boys. We see mostly hats and various versions of berets like tams. We see berets, boaters, bretons, and rounded crown hats (felt and straw), but there were several other less common styles. Some of these we do know the proper name. We have no idea what to call the headwear the girls on the previous page are wearing. Other wise rounded-crown hat with turned up brims were very popular. The rounded crown hats were done in many different styles affecting the crown, brim, and bat nand. Many schools wanted their own destinctive style. Boys in state and private schools commonly wore peaked caps. There were a range of other styles, but the peaked cap was the most common. We are less sure what headwear girls in state schools wore. All of this of course varied over time. This of course was especially true of boys who attemnded school over several centuries. Girls only beggan attending school regularly in the 19th century.

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