List of hats and headgear

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This is an incomplete list of hats and headgear (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical.

[edit] Hats

[edit] Caps and hats commonly worn today

Rendering of a baseball cap
Rendering of a baseball cap
  • student cap
  • Suma cap
  • tam, most commonly associated with the Rastafari movement
  • taqiya, also tagiyah--resembles the yarmulke
  • tuque, also knit hat, knit cap, sock cap, stocking cap, watch cap, toboggan, ski cap or skull cap
  • turban
  • Plastic Rain Hat
  • yarmulke, also kippa, kippah or skullcap, Jewish traditional
  • welder's cap
  • yachting cap
  • zucchetto

[edit] Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today

[edit] Men's

[edit] 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
  • Gainsborough hat -a very large hat often elaboratly decorated with plumes, flowers, and trinkets.
  • Nón lá, Vietnam.
  • Nón quai thao, Vietnam.

[edit] 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 , also gibus-hat
  • demicastor hat
  • Directoire
  • Dolly Varden
  • fan-tail hat
  • flat
  • Gainsborough
  • Garbo hat
  • Garibaldi hat
  • gipsy hat
  • gossamer hat
  • grebe hat
  • halo-brim hat
  • the 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)
  • 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
  • veiled hat, also bird cage hat

[edit] Caps

[edit] Caps worn by men in the past, or rarely worn today

[edit] Caps worn by women in the past

[edit] Caps worn only by nobility and only on ceremonial occasions

[edit] Bonnets

[edit] Bonnets for women

  • 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

[edit] Bonnets for men

  • glengarry bonnet
  • tam o'shanter
  • Frob head spectacular
  • Glassy Oh So Fine
  • Jobby head
  • Balmoral Bonnet, as worn by the Black Watch.

[edit] Helmets

See Helmet#Types of helmet

[edit] Hoods

  • 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

[edit] Headbands, headscarves, wimples

An Iraqi girl wearing a headscarf watches an American convoy pass by her school on a street in downtown Baghdad (April 2005).
An Iraqi girl wearing a headscarf watches an American convoy pass by her school on a street in downtown Baghdad (April 2005).

[edit] Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face

[edit] Other headdress

[edit] Women's

  • alice band
  • bandanna
  • 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

[edit] Men's

  • 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
  • visor
  • do-rag
  • stocking cap
  • topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear

[edit] Jeweled

[edit] Wigs

[edit] Headgear organised by function

[edit] Religious

[edit] Christian

[edit] Catholic

[edit] Anglican

[edit] Orthodox

[edit] Muslim

[edit] Jewish

[edit] Hasidic

[edit] Buddhist

[edit] Sikh

[edit] Military and police

[edit] Officials and civil workers

[edit] Other specialist headgear

[edit] National dress; association with a country or people

Afghan boys wearing traditional headgear. Kunduz, Afghanistan (June 2003).
Afghan boys wearing traditional headgear. Kunduz, Afghanistan (June 2003).