During the First World War there was little changes in the hair styles and hat fashion.
A few women finding long hair impacticable,getting tired from war duties and also perhaps reveilling in a spirit of emancipation cut off their hair to a level just bellow the ears.
But the "bob" style had become more popular after the war.
The need to protect their hair from dust and machinery (working hard in mutition factories etc) quite often the women wore a kind of cap,similar in style to the bathing caps of the period.
Women's Land Army was the descriptional title for all hard working women as bus or tram crew,policewomen,postwomen etc.
Their uniform was normally an official,with a peaked cap similar to those of men,in a simply decoration with a trimmed ribbon and the appropriate badge.
The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (created 1917) and Officers of Women's Royal Naval Service (created november 1917) wore a large tricorne hat.
This maybe was the inspiration for the formation (some modifications were inevitable) of the basis of the cap which was designed for Women's Royal Air Force (april 1918).
The hats that have been worned by women in late Edwardian years,continued to be worn thoughout the war years.
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