Figure 1.--These Japanese boys wear a unfirm that included matching navy blue rounded-crown hats and Eton suits with knee socks. This was normally a style adopted at private schools. |
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The rounded crown hat was commonly worn to school by American boys in the 19th century. It seems to have evolved from the 18th century tri-corner hat. We see boys wearing them to school in the photographic record that becomes available by the 1860s. (Photography began in the 1840s, but twas not until the the 1860s and the CDV that we begin to see any number of school images.) This was not a unform garement, but simply the widely worn headwear of American boys for several decades. They wre as farcaswe can tell wiorn without streners. We see boys still wearing these hats into the 1890s, mostly in rural areas during the 1890s. By this time caps were becoming invcreasingly standard for boys affecting what they wore to school. Boys stopped wearing rounded crown hats after the turn of the 20th century. In fact we rarely see boys wearuing anybkind of hats to school in the 20th century, girls did continue wearing hats. We see some English schools adopting the rounded crown hat as [art of the girls' school uniforms. It was worn at quite a number of private schools and can still be seen at a few. We have also noted itvin Australia and other countries which have adopted English styles for their school uniforms. It was a girl's style. We do not notice boys wearing them as part of their school uniforms. The sole exception we know is the Japanese. Several Japanese schools used it for both boys ahd girls. It was more popular for girls' unforms, but we also notice some boys wearing theseroubded-crown hats. The schoo here had a uniforns consiting of these rounded -crown hats and short pants Eton suits (figure 1). They are done in various color, including cream, grey, and navy blue. We rhink that some schools used them as aseasonal item. The Japanese hats cane with chin straps, but theboys did not always use them.
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