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List of hats and headgear
This is an incomplete list of hats and headgear (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical.
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Hats
Hats commonly worn today
- Alpine hat
- beanie, also skully
- bucket hat
- fedora
- Panama, also jipijapa
- slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
- sombrero
- straw hat
- Stetson
- tuque
Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today
Men's
- beaver
- beefeater
- bicorne
- boater, also basher
- bowler hat, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat
- boxer a tall hat
- cabbage-tree hat a hat woven from leaves of the cabbage tree
- capotain (and women) - a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black - also, copotain, copatain
- Caroline - 17th Century
- carriage hat - 1780s-1820s
- caubeen - Irish hat
- cavalier hat , also chevaliers, wide brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes
- chapeau-bras - 18th century, small three cornered hat which was carried under one arm
- chimney-pot hat , also lum-hat, Victorian, also worn by clerics in the Greek Orthodox Church
- pork pie hat
Women's
- bandeau hat
- beehive
- bergère hat
- bloomer
- bongrace - a wide brimmed hat, 17th/18th century
- Breton
- capeline - 18th/19th century
- capotain (and men) - a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black - also, copotain, copatain
- cart-wheel hat - low crown, wide stiff brim
Unclassified
- balibuntal - straw hat from the Philippines
- castor or caster - beaver or rabbit
- chip hat
- cloche
- cockle hat
- cony or coney
- coolie hat
- copintank , also copentank, coptank, copitaine
- cordies
- Cossack hat
- crinoline hat
- crush hat , also gibus-hat
- deerstalker , like that worn by Sherlock Holmes
- demicastor hat
- Derby, also kelly
- Directoire
- Dolly Varden
- fan-tail hat
- flat
- Gainsborough
- Garbo hat
- Garibaldi hat
- gipsy hat
- gossamer hat
- grebe hat
- halo-brim hat
- Homburg ; a black Homburg was also known as an "Anthony Eden" or "Eden" (after the politician Anthony Eden)
- hunting hat
- jerry
- kausia
- Kevenhuller
- kiss-me-quick hat
- Leghorn hat
- mandarin hat
- Manilla hat
- marquis hat
- matinée hat
- Merry Widow hat
- Moab
- montera
- mourning hat
- mousquetaire
- muff-box
- Müller hat
- mushroom
- petasos
- pill box hat
- sugar loaf
- top hat
- toque
- tricorne, called a cocked hat in its day
- Trilby
- veiled hat , also bird cage hat
Caps
Caps commonly worn today
- baseball cap
- beret
- borsalino
- flat cap, also "cloth cap," "driver cap," "golf cap," or "windsor cap"
- Gatsby cap, also "newsboy cap" (also worn by women)
- kepi
- taqiyah , also tagiyah
- yarmulke, also skull cap, Jewish traditional
Caps worn by men in the past
- aviator's cap
- barretina
- capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
- Phrygian cap
Caps worn by women (historical)
- mob-cap
- turban
Bonnets
Bonnets for women
- cabriolet
- capote - soft crown, rigid brim, 19th century
- chip bonnet
- gipsy bonnet
- kiss-me-quick
- Leghorn bonnet
- mourning bonnet
- poke bonnet
- ugly - a kind of retractable visor that could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, 19th century
Bonnets for men
- glengarry bonnet
- tam o'shanter
Helmets
- balaclava helmet
- bicycle helmet
- Brodie helmet
- capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
- fire-hat
- football helmet
- hard hat
- helmet
- iron hat
- M1 Helmet
- miner's helmet
- motorcycle helmet
- pickelhaube
- riding helmet
- space helmet
- stahlhelm
Hoods
- bonnet headdress
- calash
- capulet
- Flemish hood
- French hood
- gable hood
- hood - modern or historical, attached to tops or shirts, overcoats, cloaks, etc
- Ku Klux Klan hood
- Mary Queen of Scots
- medieval hood
- mourning hood
- riding hood
- Stuart hood
- bongrace - is the stiffened back of the hood when flipped over the forehead to provide shade; also a separate headdress to provide shade, worn with a hood or coif, Tudor/Elizabethan
Headscarves, wimples
- abaya
- buknuk
- chador
- coif
- dupatta , also shayla or milfeh
- khimar
- headscarf , also khimar, hijab, ohrni
- veil
- wimple
Masks, veils and headgear which covers the face
- Afghan burka, also full burka, burqa, burqua
- balaclava (helmet) or skimask
- boushiya
- burka, also burqa, burga, burqua
- gas mask
- mask
- loo mask
- niqab
- veil
- wedding veil
- Visor
Other headdresses
Women
- bandeau
- bongrace - a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a separate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan
- mitre , also miter
- visor
Men
- Arab headdress
- a white cap or skullcap: taqiyah , also tagiyah, gahfiah
- covered by the flowing scarf: ghutrah , also gutra, smagh, shmagh, kaffiyeh, kufiyyeh, keffiyeh, keffiyah, kaffiye, keffiya
- kept in place by a band around the cap and scarf: igal , also egal, agal, aqal, ogal
- bandana, also bandanna
- visor
- durag
- stocking cap
Jeweled
Wigs
Headgear organised by function
Religious
- biretta
- bowler hat (Orange Order)
- galero (cardinal's hat)
- coif
- fez
- Geneva hat
- Greek miter , also Greek mitre
- mitre, also miter, (bishop's tall pointed cap)
- Papal Tiara, also triregnum
- turban
- veil
- wimple a nun's headdress which covers her hair, sides of her face and throat, worn by other women in earlier centuries
- yarmulke - Jewish skullcap; also Kippah, koppel, capel, coppel
- zucchetto - Catholic skullcap; also pileolus, berettino, calotte, subbiretum, submitrale, soli-deo
Military and police
- barretina
- beefeater
- bearskin
- beret
- bersagliere
- Bone dome - closely fitting solid helmet designed to resist impacts within the cockpit of military aircraft
- Caubeen
- feather bonnet
- gas mask
- glengarry bonnet
- helmet
- kepi
- lemon squeezer
- shako
- Combination Cap
Officials and civil workers
Other specialist headgear
- chef's hat , also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
- coronet
- crown
- fire-hat
- gas mask
- mortarboard
- night cap
- nurse's cap
- space helmet
- swimming cap
- visor
- wedding veil
National dress; association with a country or people
- bearskin hat
- beret - French
- bowler hat - English
- Breton , also Bretonne
- coolie hat
- coonskin hat - American frontiersman
- Cossack hat - Cossacks
- fez
- feathered headdress
- Four Winds hat
- glengarry bonnet
- Haida hat
- mandarin hat
- Phrygian cap
- qeleshe - Albanian
- šajkača - Serbian
- sombrero - Mexican
- slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
- stetson - American
- turban
- tuque
- ushanka - Russian
- Welsh hat
See also
Last updated: 01-22-2005 01:13:41