Many men used to be seen in cloth caps. Old photographs of Sunderland and Newcastle supporters show thousands upon thousands of them in such regulation headgear; if you were adult without a hat you looked out of it. They were especially useful during windy autumn and cold winters.
Caps had the advantage of hiding significant hair loss whereas now there are so many men, of all ages, without head hair, much of it by choice.
Is it right to say that the 'new man' has a bald head and broad strong shoulders?
WB
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Wilf,
ReplyDeleteGood article. Think of the workers thrown out of work when the fashion of wearing those caps went out of the window. My memories of my boyhood at Ushaw Moor was that most male adults wore a cap. If one was daring he wore the cap tipped sjightly over one ear. Pork pie caps made up of segments sewn together with a button in the middle of the cap. Black caps, checky caps, the Store had a very wide selection and I would think that most caps were bought at the Store. I wore a cheesecutter cap, narrow black and white stripes in the winter when I was serving my time on the building sites. No hard hats or warm protective clothing in those far off days. The old check list before the head of the house went to the club was tabs, or pipe and baccy, matches, money and muffler. Remember the white silk scarves that men wore at that time.
Brian Mc.