Figure 1.--Here we see an unidetified girl wearing a coat with sailor styling and a lace collar. The porttrait is undated, but the mount style suggests the 1910s. We see one of t fancy hats popular in the early-20th century. At the time both fancy hats and large hair boiws were popular, but we rarely see girls wearing fancy hats AND large hair bows like girl here. The studio was LLoyd in Troy, New York.

Hats were standard wear for boys and girls in the 19th century. Some boys wore casps, but hats were more common and for girls fairly stndard. We do see some girls wearing bonnets, but hats were much more common. Straw hats became very common at mid-centurty. It is at this tine that the 49ers headed for the gold fields of California came into contact with high-quality Panama hats (actually made in Ecuador). Wide brimmed sailor hats became popular in the late-19th century. We see boys wearing caos in the 9yh century, but girls usually wore hats. We see many large, quite elaborate, heavily decorated hats around the turn of the 20th century. Some hats were plain like the hats worn by men and boys, but often the hats worn by women and girls were heavily decorated. We do not note a lot of girls' hats that were national styles, except for folk costumes which were commonly localized. At least in Europe and America the styles were country specific. This was somewhat less true of the caps worn by boys, in part because of the military and sports influences. We mostly see girls wearing hats in the 20th century. After the turn of the 20th century, boys increasingly began wearing caps. Girls cointunued wering hats. Hair bows became popular in the 1910s and berets (tams) in the 1920s, but hats were still fairly important. Hairbands were popular in the 12960s. Girls until the late-20th century did not usually wear caps. An exceotion was Scottidh styles. We still girls wearing hats at mid-century, at least when dressing up. Headwear was beginning to become less common for boys and girls. We see American girls wearing baseball caps in the late-20th century.

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