Figure 1.--This unidentified boy wears athat does not match his suit. The portrait looks to date from the 1910s. The studio was Ben Young in New York. |
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Boys wore both caps and hats with suits. We note a very wide variety of styles which of ciourse varied over time. Normally it was caps that were made to match suits. Hats were worn with suits, but they normally did not match in the sense of being the same color and material. Non-matching caps came in an even wider sortment of styles than matching caps. Most of the images we have found show boys with non-matching headwear More commonly we see caps and hats that were neither matched or coordinated with the suits. We note boys wearing a wide variety of caps and hats with suits. Until the 1960s, headwear was very common when dressing up. Today some of the 19th century choices seem rather inappropiate because modern conventions had not yet developed concerning some of the hreadwear types, specially the caps.
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