Figure 1.--Here we see three chikdren about 6-12 years old. Theybare probably English. Thr girls eear pinafores with tams or sailor caops. Yhe boys wears a sailor suit with a wide-brimmed straw hat. He is probably about 8 years old. Notice how his hat is tipped up. We are not sure if he did that or the photographer told him to do so.

It is also interesting how boys wear these hats. Note the boy here. His hat is cocked up (figure 1). This is usually done in studios so you can see the child's face and some of his hair. Actuallyb in studiom portrairs the hats are often tilted up more than the boy's hat here. When these hats were popular, there were not all that many snapshots. So the photographic record includes large number of studio portraits. So we don't get to see how boys were wearing them when they were out and about. We do have some outdoor snap shots, and we see fewer of the hats cocked up like studio portraits. We have found some of these outdoor snapshots in America and Britain. For some easion we have found mre processions of children all dressed up in Brttain.

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