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American boys boys commonly wore headwear to school in the 19th and early-20th century. Headwear was much more common than is the case today. Children very commonly wore hats and caps to school. This is a little difficult to follow because the children in most school portraits are not wearing their caps and hats and school portraits are our main source of information on schoolwear. As few American children wore uniforms, the hats and caps they wore were basically their regular headwear. We have very limited information on the early-9th century. We note some boys wearing military caps wsith tassles. And for much of the 19th century beginning we think in the 1830s, this meant rounded-crown hats, especially in rural areas. American boys would commonly wear the rounded-crown hat into the 1890s. We also see a variety of caps with military styles popular, especially during mid-century with Mexican War and Civil War styles popular. There seems to have been a demographic shift. Wesee founded-crown hsts in rural areas and stylish caps being worn by smartly dressed irbn children. Children wore the headwear they had to school, not any special types. Thanks to photography we know much more about the headwear children wore beginning in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately the children are not wearing headwear in many school portraits, but there are so many school photographs that we have a fairly good idea. We see the Funtleroy craze appearing in the 1880s, but boys rarely wore these styles to school such as the wide-brimmed hat. A factor here was age, the Fauntleroy suit was primarily, but not exclusively for pre-school children. We do see girls wearing wide-brimmed hats. Sailor suits were also wirn to school, but unlike Europe we do not see many boys wearing sailor caps. Sometimes with outdoor portraits, the boys are holding their caps and hats. We note a range of caps in the late-19th century with no single style dominant. Images with the girls holding their hats are much less common.
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