Figure 1.--The children look to dressed for Easter, perhaps a Easter egg hunt, probanly in the 1930s. The children are unidentified,but we would guess the boy is about 6 years old. Notice how the boy's flat cap looks large. We are guessing that motbher just purchased it for him.

We see large numbers of boys wearing flat caps beginning about 6 years of age. We do not see many younger boys wearing them. Age 6 years of course was when most boys began school in 1st grade. The various youngest boys in elementary (primary) school might wear other styles. We still see boys at age 6 years wearing sailor suits and they might wear sailor caps. Thus at this age we still see boys wearing a variety of caps to school. Many boys, however, would have been received their first first cap at age 6 years. This seems especially true in the 1910s. This began to change in the 1930s, but mosdtly because the flkat cap and headwerar in general was becoming somewhat less common. Notice the younger boy at the left here does niot have a cap (figure 1). The caps often look a little big on 6-year olds. We are guessing many mothers purposefully purchased a large size. Caps unlike some other garments like pants and shoes were not subject to hard wear and thus might last for 2-3 years.

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