Figure 1.--This brother and sister both are both decked out in sailor suits. Notice the girl wears a straw-colored hat and the boy a dark hat. We haven't notice many dark broad-brimmed hats. Image courtesy of Album 1900.
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Figure 1.--This brother and sister both are both decked out in sailor suits. Notice the girl wears a straw-colored hat and the boy a dark hat. We haven't notice many dark broad-brimmed hats. Image courtesy of Album 1900. |
German boys have worn both hats and caps. Sailor hats and caps were especially popular in Germany, as were sailor suits. They were some of the most popular headwear for boys during thelate 19th and early 20th centuries. Many German boys began school wearing a wide variety of sailor hats and caps. Broad-brimmed sailor hats were most commonly done in the natural straw colors. We have also seen them with patterns woiwn in and some dark sailor hats as well. The sailor caps were commonly done in dark and light colors. They were most commonly done in navy blue and white, but there were other colors as well. Caps in these other colors were, however, much less common than the suits in other colors.
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