Figure 1.--Boating and fishing are two activities where we see these floppy sun hats bering worn. Neither were actibities commoin with the working class. The woirking class was primarily irban and the rural working class did not have boats or often went fishing. Since medieval times there were restrictions on fishing on landed estates. Here unusually it is the girls wearing floppy sun hats. Thesnap shoit was fated 1932.

There are also social class elements to these floppy sun hats. Rhe chilsren we see wrearuing them seem to coime from upper or middle-class families. First of al, the photograph record such as family snap shots is much larger for upper and middle-class families than working-class families. Second, the activities the bioys are involved with such as boating are activiyoes that upper.middle class boys would be involved with such as boatiung. This includes sport. We see boys playing cricket with these hats, but not football (soccer). Cricket has an upper/middle-class assocuation while football has a working class association. This not only means the players, but also the spectators. Cricket spectators are a genteel lot. Football fans are a notoriously rowdy group.

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