German Schoolwear:  Headwear--Flatcaps


Figure 1.--Flat caps were a major style in America for three decades, but it as far as we can tell, not a major style in Germany for school boys. I think it was more a working man's cap. We see a few boys wearing them, but as far as we can tell, flat caps were not very common school headwear. This is a 6-year old boy just beginning school. We know that he was just beginning school because of the gift cone. We seems quite happy about starting school. The gift cone must help.

Flat caps were a major style in America for three decades, but it as far as we can tell, not a major style in Germany for school boys. I think it was more a working man's cap. We see a few boys wearing them, but as far as we can tell, flat caps were not very common school headwear. The examples we have seen are from the 1920s. We notice a boy just starting school wearing one. We are ot sure about the age conventions. We tend to have more first year portraits because it was such a common convention to take a child's portrait wgen they first began school.







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