Figure 1.--These two boys photographed in 1930 are both wearing caps, the boy on the left wears a flat cap, and at the time this photograph was taken, it was quite common to see boys of working class families wearing ones such as these. The boy on the right is wearing a peak cap, which would eventually replace the cloth cap as popular headwear for boys. <./i> |
Many English boys before World War I wore sailor hats and caps. This was especially true of boys from the upper class and confortable middle-class. After the War, sailor headwear becomes much less common. Most boys wear eother flatcaps or peaked school caps. In the 1930s, the peaked school cap greadually replaces the flat caps. These caps had social connotations, but i do not fully understanf them at this time. Boys from working class families cimmonly wore these flat caps. We have seen, however, some boys from affluent families in trendy clothes wearing them.
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