# Page boy and Pea coats

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-boy-and-pea-coats/217477>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 7, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-boy-and-pea-coats/217477 "2003-12-07T02:07:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekow2kn3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@ekow2kn3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekow2kn3)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-boy-and-pea-coats/217477/1 "2003-12-07T02:07:15Z")

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Does anybody know the origin/proper name of the page boy caps? I’m not sure if thats what they are called, but the hats that resemble rounded triangular prisms

Does anybody know the origin of the Pea coat?

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-boy-and-pea-coats/217477/2 "2003-12-07T02:48:01Z")

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Pea coat is really a very big corruption of the Dutch word _pijjekker_ We should be calling it a pee jacket,I guess. The coat/jacket[short, double-breasted woolen] that is still popular today is quite similar to the one worn by Dutch sailors as early as the 15th century.

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**Author:** ![ekow2kn3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@ekow2kn3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekow2kn3)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-boy-and-pea-coats/217477/3 "2003-12-07T05:49:00Z")

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thanks, does anybody know about the hats?