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We do not note kilt suits made with matching headear. Rather a great variety of headwear was used. This included tams and sailor styles. Many boys wearing kilt suits wore wide-brimmed hats. Sailor caps were also worn, but hats were more popular. HBC has not yet fully assessed the types of headgear most commonly worn. We believe that tams were also popular. Few images show boys in kiltsuits wearing their head gear, primarily because most of the available images are studio portraits and mothers usually wanted the boys' hair to show. Many mothers, however, insisted on the boy's hat or cap be in the portrait and the headgear is often on a table or lying on the floor. The kiltsuit was a popular style for boys in the late 19th century before the turn of the century. It was still worn after the turn of the century, but not nearly as commonly. Thus there are relatively few outdoors family snapshots. Almost all of the available images or indoors studio portraits in which the boys are not wearing their hats or caps. The few where they are we notice broad-brimmed sailor hats, sailor caps, and tams. Other styles were also worn, but we have few examples.
Few images show boys in kiltsuits wearing their head gear, primarily because most of the available images are studio portraits and mothers usually wanted the boys' hair to show. Many mothers, however, insisted on the boy's hat or cap be in the portrait and the headgear is often on a table or lying on the floor. This is a little difficult to assess, because boys in kilt suits for some reason are rarely pictured with their headwear. Thus there are relatively few outdoors family snapshots.
The kilt suit was a popular style for boys in the late 19th century before the turn of the century. It was still worn after the turn of the century, but not nearly as commonly. The headwear worn seems to be simply the popular styles at the time rather than matching headwear or Scottish theme headwear. There was some Scottish styles. There were some Scottish styles, but we do not see them being worn as commonly as other styles.
We have only begun to collect information on the headwear styles boys wore with kilt suits. We do not note kilt suits made with matching headear. This was a style for older boys wearing suits, but we do not see this with the younger boys wearing kilt suits. Rather a great variety of headwear was used. We note quite a few boys in kilt uits wearing sailor style headwear. Many boys wearing kilt suits wore wide-brimmed hats. Sailor caps were also worn, but hats were more popular. HBC has not yet fully assessed the types of headgear most commonly worn. We believe that tams were also popular. Scottish theme headwear such as Balmorals and Glengarys were also popular choices.
We do not note kilt suits made with matching headear. This was a style for older boys wearing suits, but we do not see this with the younger boys wearing kilt suits. Rather a great variety of headwear was used.
We note quite a few boys in kilt uits wearing sailor style headwear. Many boys wearing kilt suits wore wide-brimmed hats. Sailor caps were also worn, but hats were more popular. HBC has not yet fully assessed the types of headgear most commonly worn.
We believe that tams were also popular. This may have been because they resembled Blmoral bonnets
Scottish theme headwear such as Balmorals and Glengarys were also popular choices. They of course were popular because they seemed so appropriate with a kilt-styled garment. Even so we do not see them being worn very commonly, at least in America. We suspect that they my have been a more common choice in England and Scotland.
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