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We do not have details about when the school cap first appeared. We first notice them in the mid-19th centuries the private (public,mean elire boarding dchools) schools. We think that they began as a games (sports) uniform item. The grammar schools followed the uniform and other trends at the public schools. There is, however, only limoted pgotograohic ecidence (1850s). With the explosion in popularity of the CDV (1860s) we begin to see more photographic evidence. They were were definitely being worn by the 1870s and fairly common by the 1880s. Virtually every English school boy was wearing them by the 1890s. Here there was an age factor. This varied from scjool to school. All the younger boys werewearing them. But not all the senior boys. We see boys wearing other caps, but by the late-19th century this was the exlusive cap worn at private schools. It was the domimnat cap worn to state schools, but not the only cap style. The xtate scgools did not have unifiorms, but the school caos wre very commonn. What is not entirely clear about 19th century portraits is if a boy is wearing a school cap with a uniform or with his regular clothes. This is clear when we have group school portraits, but not when we only have individual portraits.
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