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In the 19th century both boys and girls wore hats. Yonger boys wore wide-brimmed hats, older boys rounded-crown hats. Boys also wore caps, but hats were very common. Thus changed after the turn of the century. Boys began wearing primarily caps. This was not the case foir girls. Girls never wore caps and this did not change at the turn of the 20th century. We see some bonnets--meaning true bonnets--not fancy hats. Berets would become pooular in the 1920s, but caps for whatever reason never became popular for girls through the post-World War II era as boys and girls aw well as men stoppped wearing headear as they had done for centuries. Girls at the beginning of the decade were still commomly wearing the same wide-brimmed hats that were popular in the 1900s. Those who were not wearing hats mostly did not because they wanted to wear stylish hairbows -- generally large hairbows. The decade was the most popular decade for hairbows, both the size of the bows and the prevalence. Headwear is perhaps the most difficult garment to research. This is because most people took off their headwear when they had their potraits taken. Moms wanted their little darlings to be fully photpgraphed and this included hair styles which after all is a very important part of how a person looks. Children headwear in the 19th century might be placed some where in the portrait, but was usually not worn--a hint as to how precalebt headwear was. We not longer see that to any extent after the turn of the century, especially by the 1910s. School photography is an important part of the photographic record and almost always the photographer had the children take off their caps and hats. Fortunately we a have a wonderful portrait from Waycross, Georgia showing children's headwear at the beginning of the decade--both boys and girls.
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