Figure 1.-- The boy here had his portait taken in Mülheim/Ruhr, about 1900. He wears a sailor suit with a cap. We are mot sureprecisely wht to call it. Click on the image to see the boy with his coat off.Image courtesy of the BP collection. |
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We do not know the English or German term. We are not at all sure what these caps were called. We have seen a similar cap made for adults, often with a tassle. They were called smoking caps. Of course the boys' caps would not be ca;;ed this. We have seen catalogs that call them caps without a proper name. They seem to be hat crowns with out brims. This seems to have been a popular style during the late 9th century. We do not see them much in the 20th century, except the early 1900s. This was a fairly common style in America. We are less sure aout Germany.
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