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We see some boys wearing peaked caps with sailor suits. This was not a very common combination, but sailor suits and these caps were so popular around the rurn-of-the 20th century that we do see them being worn together. The images we have found seem to be primarily boys from affluent families that wore this combinatiuon. The portrait on the previous page is a good example. The imahe here has fewer social-class clues (figure 1). At the time the affluet class associations were not the case for the two garments when worn separately, but it does seem to be the case for the comnination. The peaked cap was associated with schools in Britain, but this was much less the case in America. Sone private schools did have these caps, but we also see boys attemnding public schoolls wearing them in the very early-20th century. Almost always this was a combinaion we note before World War I, Motly in the 1890s and 1900s, perhaps the early-1910s. We see sailor suits earlier. We also see peaked caps afterwards as well as sailor suits, but they were not worn together. The peaked cap after World War I became a kind of cap worn by boys from affluent families. They were worn by boys with suits or as part of private school uniforms.
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