Figure 1.--This little American boy looks about 4 years old. He wears a soft sailor cap with his Faunyleroy kiltsuit about the tutn of the 20th century. |
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One of the most popular headwear styles for boys in the late-19th century were sailor styles, both sailor caps and wide-brimmed sailor hats. We had thought that this was the most common headwear style, but we can not confirm this in the photographic record. We see boys wearing many other types of headwear with kilt suits as well as sailor styles. Sailor hats seem to have been more popular than sailor caps, in part because by the time sailor caps had become fashionable, kilt suits were beginning to go out of style. There was, however, some overlap in the 1890s. As sailor styles became more popular, some boys must have worn wide-brimmed sailor hats. Sailor styles were so popular that they were often worn with other stylles than sailor suits. This was probably common in the 1880s and 90s when these hats were particularly popular.
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