Figure 1.--This unidentified English boy wears his chool cap with a suit rather than a blazer. The snapshot is undated, but looks like the early 960s to us. Normally boys wore caps done in the same cors as their blazers. Some schools hs suits rather thn blazers, nrmally grey suits. They would wear grey caps with ther suits. It s hard to tell, but thi boy seems to have acolored cap. Soe chools had both blazrs and suits. The blazers were fr everyday wear and the suits for pecial occasions.

School caps began to notably decline in the 1960s. we still see them, but they wre much lss common. After the 50s, schools began to drop the once ub=iquitous school cap as a uniform requirement. This occured first at secary schools, but gradually filtered down to the primry school. At the same time, many of the primary schools that began adopting uniforns in the 1950s did not include a a cap as part of the uniform requirement. This varid from school to school. They became increasingly unpopular with boys, especially at secondary schools. We no longer see tem cmmnly at public (elite private secondary boarding( schools, but they continued to be widely worn at prep schools continued to require them. And the caps were still widely worn for sport, pimarily cricket. Boys were awarded rgheir caps as colors in the same way American boys were awarded letters.