Figure 1.--Here we see big sidter with her two younger brothers. The children are an unidentified the boys look to be about 4-7 years old. The younger boy wears a kilt suit with a wide white collar, floppy bow, and doublke-breasted styling. His slightly older brother wears a collar-buttoning jackey with knee pants. Both boys wear straw-rounded crownn hat. Their big sister wears a similar hat with a wider brim. ge has a lace collar an jacketed dress which she wars with long hair done in waves. The cabinet card portrait is undated but was probably taken about 1880. The studio was Charles in Knightstown, Indiana.

Rounded-crown hats were not just a hat style for the younger boys wearing kilt suits. It was a general style for boys from about 3-12 years of age during the second half of the 19th century. It seems to be the most common boys' headwear during that period. There were quite a range of headwear worn during that period. But no other type of headwear or style approached the rounded-crown hat in the photographic record. The age range of avout 3-6 years and the chrnological period encompassing the second half of the 20th century dovetails with the age and chromology of the kilt suit. So there was no associatui with the kilt suit and riunded crown hat. It is just that this was the populat type and style of headwear worn by boys, including the younger boys wearing likt suits at the time. We also see older boys wearing these hats after they were breeched and wearing more mature-style suits with trousers. The kilt suit wa associated with younger boys, the rounded crown-hat, however, had a much wider age range extendeding to boys nearing their teens.

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