Beanie (seamed cap)
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In the United States, a beanie is a head-hugging brimless cap, sometimes made from triangular panels of material joined by a button at the crown and seamed together around the sides. Beanies may be ma
Jefferson Medical College Hospital School of Nursing students wearing Skyline Caverns beanies c.1951
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop, 15th century. Evidence of a beanie like cap.
Cornell University freshmen wearing beanies in 1919
Whoopee cap
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A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among some young people in the mid-20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped
Beanie (seamed cap)
…some colleges and fraternities, as they would often use school colors in the different panels making up the headgear. Another style of beanie was the whoopee cap, a formed and pressed wool felted hat, with a flipped-up brim that formed a band around the bottom of the cap. The band would often have a decorative…
George Lindsey as Goober Pyle wearing a typical whoopee cap.