Figure 1.-- This unidentified America boy wears a wude-brimmed sailor hat with his tunic suit. The hat does not look very symetrical. The portrait was probably taken about 1910. |
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We see American boys wearing a variety of hats with tunivs. This of course varied over time. The primary hats we note being worn with tunics suits were sailor hats or styles related to sailor hats like rounded-crown hats. The most associated hat style was the wide-brimmed sailor hat. The enormous popularity of R.F. Outcault's comic strip character Buster Brown helped to associated broad-brimmed sailor hats with tunic suits, both Russian blouses and sailor tunics. This may well have been more popular with cartoonists and other illustrators than with the general public. We do, however, see a number of boys weating these or similar hats. This was commonly seen in portraits more than family snapshots. One popular headwear was the floppy sun cap. This was a style related to the sailor swabbie style which is more commonly classified as a cap. This does not seem very common, but we have seen a few examples.
The primary hats we note being worn with tunics suits were sailor hats or styles related to sailor hats like rounded-crown hats. The most associated hat style was the wide-brimmed sailor hat. The boy here is a good example (figure 1). The enormous popularity of R.F. Outcault's comic strip character Buster Brown helped to associated broad-brimmed sailor hats with tunic suits, both Russian blouses and sailor tunics. This may well have been more popular with cartoonists and other illustrators than with the general public. We do, however, see a number of boys weating these or similar hats. This was commonly seen in portraits more than family snapshots.
In sharp contrast to the broad-brimmed sailor hat, we see some hats with the brim rather than extending out was folded up against the sides of the crown. A gppd example is an unidentified boy, we think in the 1860s.
One popular headwear was the floppy sun cap. This was a style related to the sailor swabbie style which is more commonly classified as a cap. This does not seem very common, but we have seen a few examples.
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