U.S. School Garments: Headwear--Peaked School Caps


Figure 1.--This boy brought his peaked school cap for his portrait in the 1890s. He has laid it on the bike handelbars. We are not sure if this was because he did not like the cap or mother did not want his head covered. We suspect that he was propud of it and wanted it in the portrait when mom didn't want him to wear it. The cap looks like it is a uniform cap at a private school, perhaps the boy's games cap. We do not know what school he attended, but the studio was Morrill in East Somerville, Masachusetts. Notice the only slightly off-center hair center part.

These caps are called school caps in Britain because they were so widely wirn by school boys. This was not the case in Anmerica, but we do see them worn at school. We note both uniform and non-uniform school caps. The peaked cap was one of several cap styles boys wore at the turn-of- the-20th century century which meant that some boys wore them to school. They were generally replaced by flat caps with became rhe dominant cap style (1910s). The peaked cap was also worn as a uniform item at a number of private schools. These were a realtively small nummber of toney northeastern schools that emulated the British system, including the uniform. Many American private schools were founded in the mid- and late-19th century. They commonly adopted the uniforms worn at British public (private boarding) schools. One of the items adopted was the peaked cap. This was used both for the basic uniform and also as a games (sports) cap. The sports cap in particular was commonly dione in bright colors or circular patterns.






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