Figure 1.--This German boy in the 1920s wears a sailor cap with his sailor suit for the first day of school. Note the sailor cap. Boys also commonly wore peaked school caps with sailor suits. |
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We note various styles of headwear worn with sailor suits. There were both sailor hats and caps. We see boys wearing sailor hats and caps. The hats were mostly worn in the 19th century, but we also see them in the early-20th century. After World War I we only see boys wearing sailor caps. The hats went out of style. A major factor here is that sailors no longer wore sailor hats only caps. The caps the boys wore were styled like the caps worn by German sailors. Boys did not always wear sailor styled headwear with sailor suits. Many did, but school peaked hats were also popular. We only see this in Germany and Austria. Elsewhere boys normally wore sailor caps with sailor suits. Likewise, German boys sometimes wore sailor caps when not wearing sailor suits, but they also wore other headwear. Sailor caps were still very common in the 1930s, but were rarely seen after World War II when sailor suits also went out of style.
We see boys wearing both sailor hats and caps. There were different styles, nost worn with talies abd streamers. The hats were mostly worn in the 19th century, but we also see them in the early-20th century. After World War I we only see boys wearing sailor caps. The hats went out of style. A major factor here was probably that sailors no longer wore sailor hats only caps. The caps the boys wore were styled like the caps worn by German sailors. We note boys before World War I mostly wearing sailor headwear wih sailor suits. After World War I we see many boys wearing other headwear, especially the military-style peaked student caps. Even so we still see quite a number of boys wearing sailor caps. We think that the sailor caps were more common with the younger boys, but we see some of the older boys wearing the sailor caps as well.
Boys did not always wear sailor styled headwear with sailor suits. Many did, but school peaked hats were also popular. We only see this in Germany and Austria. Elsewhere boys normally wore sailor caps with sailor suits. Likewise, German boys sometimes wore sailor caps when not wearing sailor suits, but they also wore other headwear. The cap we see most commonly is the military-styled peaked caps that were worn as school caps. Sailor caps were still very common in the 1930s, but were rarely seen after World War II when sailor suits also went out of style.
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