Figure 1.--Here we see a group of English children after school in Yorkshire. Noitice that all of the children are wearing headwear. The girls are mostly wearing tams. Almost all of the boys are wearing caps. The photograph is undated, but looks like the 1900s to us.

We note girls wearing a wide variety of school headwear. The major types are: berets/tams, boaters, rounded-crown hats variously styled, and stocking caps during the winter. Except for the berets, they are largely of English origins. These main types are all caps and hats derived from the headwear boys wore, although the chronology and styling for the girls can be different. Only boys for some time wore berets in France, but in other countries they were popular for girls. We note tams were popular for a time in several countries. There are other headwear styles of lesser importance. And some countries have destinctiove national styles. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that both secular education and girls education are Western innovations. As a result there are fewer non-Western school styles for girls than boys. Just as boys headwear has become less importabnt since World War II, the same is true for girls' school headwear. Although in some countries, sun-safe clothing including headwear has been adopted. Stocking caps are important seasonally in countries with a seasonal winter, mostly northern hemisphere countries. Boys also wore stocking caps, but colors and decoration like a pom could be different.

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