Figure 1.--This American boy looks to have been photographed around 1905. Notice the rather modern looking peaked cap. He wears long stockings with his kneepants sailor suit. Also notice the embroidered dickey.
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Figure 1.--This American boy looks to have been photographed around 1905. Notice the rather modern looking peaked cap. He wears long stockings with his kneepants sailor suit. Also notice the embroidered dickey. |
HBC has noted some boys wearing a military-style peaked cap. This looks more like an army cap than a cap worn by soldiers. We wonder if it might be a style adopted for a school uniform, although the lack of a badge on the one available portrait argues against this. These peaked caps do not appear to have been bery popular and we have noted very few portraits of boys wearing them. This may be a style worn in Germany, but even in Germany it was not very common. We have also noted a few American images with this style. We have not noted it being worn in any other countries. The image that we have appears to be taken about the early 20th century. We do not have any indication that they were worn after World War I (1914-18) the War, but the early 1920s is possible. It has become more common in Spain and France in recent years where it is worn as part of a First Communion outfit, sumbolizing an officer's uniform rather than an enlisted uniform.
HBC has noted some boys wearing a military-style peaked cap. This looks more like an army cap than a cap worn by soldiers. We wonder if it might be a style adopted for a school uniform, although the lack of a badge on the one available portrait argues against this. Some of the styling looks a little different than modern peaked military caps, but some turn of the 20th century caps look very modern.
These peaked caps do not appear to have been bery popular and we have noted very few portraits of boys wearing them. Other caps styled like the caps actually worn by enlisted sailors were much more common.
HBC has limited information as to which countries this style of cap was worn. This is primarily becaise we have seen few portraits with boys wearing peaked militarybcaps with their sailor suits. This style was worn to some extgent in Germany as the image here shows (figure 1). Even in Germany, however, it does not appear to have been as common as other styles. We have also noted a few American images with this style of sailor cap. We have not noted it being worn in any other countries during the early 20th century. We have noted boys wearing peaked caps with sailor suits as part of late 20th century First Communion suits in France and Spain.
The German image seen here (figure 1) looks to have been taken in the early 20th century, perhaps the 1910s or early 1920s. We do not have any indication that they were worn after the War. It has become more common in Spain and France in recent years where it is worn as part of a First Communion outfit, sumbolizing an officer's uniform rather than an enlisted uniform.
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