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There are also a range of cold weather caps, but we do not yet have much information on the different styles. Cold-weather headwear was almost always was some kind of cap. We do not see hats. The major exception seems to have been the head scarves that many girls wear. Russian girls or at least their ears had a prioblem. Caps were mostly worn by boys and the tyles were seen as a boy's garmnt. The primary winter cap style was what seems to have been called a trapper hat. It was made with fur and got its name from the caps worn by fur trapers who as in America payed an important role in the expansion of the Russian state. Americans moved west, the Russians moved east in their case into Siberia. Traper cap is the term we note today. We are not sure what it was called during Soviet times. As fur was used, it would have been relatively expensive. So we are not sure how widely worn there were. It was also the cap style worn by the Red Army soldiers in World War II. Interestingly, American boys wore similar caps styled a little differently during the 1940s-60s, of course made with faux fur. Many American boys wore them to school. With the innovation of faux fur it may have become more common in Russia. It had ear flaps that were tied together at the top when the weather was mild.
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