joemasonspage posted: " There have been different periods in my life when I have worn different kinds of head wear, and there were periods when I have worn none. The first head covering that I remember was the school cap that was part of my uniform when I went to school at St M" joemasonspage
There have been different periods in my life when I have worn different kinds of head wear, and there were periods when I have worn none. The first head covering that I remember was the school cap that was part of my uniform when I went to school at St Mary's in Bungay in 1955. (I don't recall wearing a uniform or cap at my kindergarten in Norwich.) This cap we wore to go to school, but once inside we removed it. I don't remember ever losing it, so I must have left it on my peg until it was time to go home.
Once I was home I removed my cap and played happily bare headed. Although I wore the rest of my uniform for most of the time, even (incredibly) in the school holidays, I didn't wear my cap. At my next school there was no cap to the school uniform, but in the Junior School we had sou'westers. These were kept for the wettest weather, and I only remember wearing mine once. On moving on to the Senior School we abandoned our sou'westers and wore no headgear at all. Meanwhile pupils at other schools were progressively abandoning their caps and bonnets to be bare headed also.
DAD
Throughout his life my father continued to wear a Trilby hat, and my mother a bonnet, but both wore them only on formal occasions when a coat was required. For Dad it was a grey Trilby and a grey Mac. For most of the time he wore a linen jacket and went bare head.
My sister in Canada sent me a Raccoon tailed hat, but this was a nod to the early days of settlement in the New World, not a practical item of headwear. I would have felt ridiculous going out in it.
At university I wore no hat, but adopted the general fashion of going everywhere carrying an umbrella. This was not merely for show; if it rained I opened it. After uni I left my umbrella carrying days behind me but briefly sported a wide-brimmed black Trilby. As a member of the Territorial Army I wore a beret of course, which I had wear pretty constantly, and even when sitting down indoors I had it rolled up under my epaulette.
When I became a postman I had a peaked cap but I hardly ever put it on. My rain proof outer garment had a hood which put up whenever it rained.
Finally as an old man I spend the winter wearing a woolly hat and the summers with a sun hat on my head.
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