This is an incomplete list of headgear (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical.
- 1Hats
- 1.1Worn in the past, or rarely worn today
- 2Caps
- 3Bonnets
- 8Other headdress
- 11Headgear organised by function
- 11.1Religious
- 11.3Officials and civil workers
Hats[edit]
It has a Native American origin and in the Miami-Illinois language mean wild onion or wild garlic. Chicago is most likely an Indian name, since that area was once settled by the Native Americans.
Leather flight helmet
Beanie or skully and or visor beanie.
Boater (also basher, skimmer, cady, katie, somer, or sennit hat)
Bobble hat (tuque)
Bucket hat also fishing hat, ratting hat (UK) or Dixie Cup hat (US)
Bowler or Derby
Busby, confused with Bearskin [this is not a British hussar 'busby' but a German kolpak]
Combination cap, also 'service cap' or peaked cap
Cowboy hat, sometimes 'Ten gallon hat'
Eight-point cap, also Gatsby cap, Newsboy cap
Fire hat in the National Museum of American History
Flat cap, also paddy cap, bunnet, cloth cap, driver cap, golf cap, or Windsor cap
Garrison cap, also 'flight cap', 'side cap' or 'overseas cap.'
Greek fisherman's cap, also captain's cap
knit cap, also knit hat, stocking cap, toboggan, toque, watch or ski cap
Kippah, also kippa, yarmulke, or skullcap
Kofia, worn in East Africa
Kufi, including the 'Zulu crown'.
Skullcap, also Zucchetto
Tam, or Tam o'Shanter
Taqiya, also tagiyah
Top hat (also, Topper)
Worn in the past, or rarely worn today[edit]
Men's[edit]
- American fiber helmet - for use in tropical regions
- Boater, also basher, skimmer
- Bowler, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby
- Bycocket – a hat with a wide brim that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front
- 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
- Caubeen – Irish hat
- Cavalier hat, also chevaliers – wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes
- Chapeau-bras, also chapeau-de-bras – 18th- to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm
- Chaperon – a series of hats that evolved in 14th- and 15th-century Europe from the medieval hood of the same name
- Deerstalker – hunting cap with fold-down ears, associated with Sherlock Holmes, Elmer Fudd, Holden Caulfield, and Ignatius Reilly
- Hanfu hats and headwear – ancient Chinese hats
- Pith Helmet – for use in tropical regions
- Tiara – a hat traditionally worn by the Pope, which has been abandoned in recent decades, in favor of the Mitre
- Top hat, also stovepipe hat, chimney pot hat, lum hat, or (in collapsible form) gibus
- Trilby, sometimes (incorrectly) called 'Fedora'
Women's[edit]
- Bongrace – a velvet-covered headdress, stiffened with buckram – 16th century
- Breton – originating in 19th-century France, a lightweight hat, usually in straw, with upturned brim all the way round
- Capeline – 18th–19th century
- Capotain (and men) – a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black – also, copotain, copatain
- Cartwheel hat – low crown, wide stiff brim
- Doll hat – a scaled-down hat, usually worn tilted forward on the head
- Gainsborough hat – a very large hat often elaborately decorated with plumes, flowers, and trinkets
- Half hat – a millinery design that only covers part of the head and may be stiffened fabric or straw
- Nón lá, Vietnam
- Nón quai thao, Vietnam
- Pussyhat - a pink, knitted hat created in large numbers by thousands of participants involved with the United States 2017 Women's March
Unclassified[edit]
- Balibuntal – straw hat from the Philippines
- Castor or caster – beaver or rabbit (see beaver hat)
- Cony or coney
- Copintank, also copentank, coptank, copitaine
- Cossack hat
- Garibaldi hat
- Golden hat – from Bronze Age Europe
- Halo hat – millinery design in which the headgear creates a circular frame for the face, creating a halo effect.[1]
- Hat Terrai Gurkha, worn only by Gurkha Contingent officers in Singapore
- Homburg; a black Homburg was also known as an 'Anthony Eden' (after the politician Anthony Eden)
- Jaapi of Assam, India
- Quadricorn – a four-cornered hat.[2]
- Veiled hat, also bird cage hat.
Caps[edit]
Caps worn by men in the past, or rarely worn today[edit]
- Brodrick cap (a military cap named after St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton)
- Cap and bells ('Jester cap', 'jester hat' or 'fool's cap')
- Capeline – a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
- Hooker-doon, a cloth cap with a peak, in Scotland.[3]
- Sou'wester, or 'Cape Ann,' a flexible waterproof hat traditionally worn by sailors
- Whoopee cap, a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid 20th century in the United States
Caps worn by women in the past[edit]
Caps worn on ceremonial occasions[edit]
Bonnets[edit]
Bonnets for women[edit]
- Cabriolet
- Capote – soft crown, rigid brim, 19th century
- Chip bonnet
- Gypsy bonnet – shallow to flat crown, saucer shaped, and worn by tying it on with either a scarf or sash, under the chin, or at the nape of the neck – 19th Century
- Kiss-me-quick
- Leghorn bonnet
- Mourning bonnet
- Poke bonnet – Early 19th Century, 'Christmas Carol' style, with a cylindrical crown and broad funnel brim
- Ugly – a kind of retractable visor that could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, 19th century
Bonnets for men[edit]
- Blue bonnet, the ancestor of the Balmoral, feather, Glengarry and other men's bonnets
- Glengarry bonnet
Helmets[edit]
See Types of helmet
Hoods[edit]
- Bongrace, 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
- Capirote, traditionally worn by the Nazarenos of a Spanish Brotherhood during solemn penitence
- Chaperon (headgear) adaptable late Middle Ages 'dead-chicken' hood and hat
- Hood – modern or historical, attached to tops or shirts, overcoats, cloaks, etc.
Headbands, headscarves, wimples[edit]
- Chaperon (headgear) adaptable late Middle Ages 'dead-chicken' hat, hood and scarf
- Crispine 13th Century European women's style of padding hair in a net and headband
- Dupatta, also shayla or milfeh
- Headscarf, also khimar, hijab,
- Mandily (Greek Orthodox)
Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face[edit]
- See Mask for a fuller list of masks.
- Balaclava (helmet) or ski mask
- Bongrace – a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a separate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan
- Burqa, also burka, burga, burqua
- Tagelmust, also cheich
Other headdress[edit]
Women's[edit]
- Mitre, also miter
Men's[edit]
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- Arab headdress
- A white cap or skullcap: * taqiya, 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
- Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
Jeweled[edit]
- Crown
- Tiara
Wigs[edit]
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Headgear organised by function[edit]
Religious[edit]
Buddhist[edit]
- Pan Zva (Hat with the long ears from the Pandita of Nyingma.)
Christian[edit]
Hindu[edit]
- Mukut – Crown worn by Hindu deities
- Pagri – Indian Hindu turban
- Pheta – Marathi turban
- Rasam Pagri – religious ceremony of the turban
- Sarpech – ornament worn with turban
Jewish[edit]
- Havalim (חֲבָליִם) ropes that are referenced in Kings I 20:31. Used as a sign of mourning.
- Kippah or yarmulke
- Migba'at was likely a cone-shaped Turban. This turban was likely only worn in the context of the priesthood and is cited in Exodus 27:20–30.
- Mitznefet was most likely a classic circular turban. This is derived from the fact that Hebrew word Mitznefet comes from the root 'to wrap.' This turban was likely only worn in the context of the priesthood and is cited in Exodus 27:20–30.
- Pe’er mentioned in Ezekiel 24: 17;23. In verse 17, Ezekiel commands the Israelites to “wrap their” Pe’ers around their heads. In verse 23, Ezekiel tells the Israelite that their Pe’er's 'shall remain on your heads.” ('Pe'er' (which translates into 'splendor') is usually used to refer to phylacteries (tefillin))
- Sheitel is a wig worn by some married women in order to maintain marital modesty in public
- Sudra (סודרא) is a headdress, similar to the keffiyah worn by Jewish men in the ancient near-east.
Muslim[edit]
- Hijab
Sikh[edit]
Military and police[edit]
- Beefeaters' hat
- Campaign hat, also drill instructor hat, drill sergeant hat, ranger hat, sergeant hat, Smokey Bear hat
- Cap comforter, a woollen hat associated with British Commandos
- Chapeau-bras, also chapeau de bras – 18th to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm
- Combination cap, also service cap, combination cover
- Custodian helmet, headwear of the British police officer, ranks of Sergeant and Constable
- Envelope Busby or Astrakhan, worn by Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada
- Flying helmet – closely fitting solid helmet designed to resist impacts within the cockpit of military aircraft – colloquially known as a 'bone dome'
- Garrison cap, also campaign cap, wedge cap, flight cap, garrison hat, overseas cap
- Glengarry, also Glengarry bonnet, Glengarry cap
- Kartus – a peakless cap worn by the Swedish army during the Great Northern War. Called the Kabuds by the Danish and Norwegians and the Kartooze by the Russians, nations which also adopted it
- Mirliton – a high tubular concave hat with a 'wing', worn by hussars in the 18th and early 19th centuries
- Peaked cap, also known as service cap or combination cap
- Pickelhaube – a spiked German leather helmet.
- Sailor cap, also known as 'white hat' or 'dixie cup' in the US Navy
- Slouch hat – One side of hat droops down as opposed to the other which is pinned against the side of the crown
- Tarleton helmet – A leather helmet with a large crest. Popular with cavalry and light infantry in the late 18th and early 19th century. Named after British military commander, Banastre Tarleton.
- Tricorn – Three-cornered hat synonymous with the 18th century. Worn by musketeers, dragoons and cuirassiers of all western armies, also often by French grenadiers (which was uncommon considering that most grenadiers at the time wore mitres or bearskins).
- War bonnet, the feathered headdress worn warriors and chiefs of Plains Indians.
Officials and civil workers[edit]
China (historical)[edit]
Other specialist headgear[edit]
- Chef's hat, also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
- Printer's hat also pressman's hat
- Propeller hat (propeller beanie)
- Santa's hat
- Shower cap, a flexible plastic covering to protect the hair from getting wet, as used when taking a shower.
- Swimming cap, also 'swim cap' and 'bathing cap'
- Tin Foil hat
- Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
- Watermelon Helmet
National dress; association with a country, people and religion[edit]
- Aso Oke Hat – Yoruba people
- Barretina – Catalan
- Beret – French, Basque
- Bhatgaunle Topi – Nepal
- Blangkon – Javanese and Sundanese people
- Breton, also Bretonne
- Chupalla – Chilean
- Chullo – Peruvian
- Clop – Romanian
- Coonskin hat – Americanfrontiersman
- Cork hat – Australia
- Cossack hat
- Dogon hat – Dogon people, West Africa
- Feathered headdress – Native American
- Flat cap – English people and Irish people
- Four Winds hat – Sami people
- Fulani hat – Fula people, West Africa
- Għonnella or Faldetta – Maltese
- Irish walking hat – Irish people
- Kofia – Swahili people, East Africa
- Kufi – West Africa
- Leopard cap – Igbo people, West Africa
- Mandarin hat – Chinese
- Mokorotlo – Basotho/Lesotho
- Montenegrin cap – Montenegrins, Serbs
- Lungee (Afghan Turban) - Pashtun people, Afghanistan
- Pakol – Pashtun people, Afghanistan
- Phrygian cap – Roman, French
- Qeleshe – Albanian
- Šajkača – Serbian
- Salakot – Filipino
- Shripech – Traditional Crown of Monarch of Nepal
- Slouch hat, also digger hat, Australia and New Zealand
- Songkok – Malay-speaking peoples of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
- Tam o'shanter – Scottish
- Ti'i langga – Rote Island
- Top hat – English
- Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
- Tuque or toque – Canadian, esp. French-Canadian/Québécois
- Ushanka – Russian
- Witch hat - Galician
- Zulu crown – Zulu people, Southern Africa, see kufi for information
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^Chico, Beverly (2013). Hats and Headwear around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO LLC. pp. 211–12. ISBN9781610690621. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ^Lewandowski, Elizabeth J. (2011). The complete costume dictionary. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 243. ISBN9780810840041.
- ^The Concise Scots Dictionary. Aberdeen University Press. 1987. p. 296. ISBN0-08-028492-2.