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Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one's head .Headgear serve a variety of purposes:...
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This is an incomplete list of hats and headgear
Headgear

Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one's head .Headgear serve a variety of purposes:...
 (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical.

Hats


Caps and hats commonly worn today

  • balmoral
    Balmoral bonnet

    The Balmoral Bonnet is a traditional Scottish bonnet or cap that can be worn with Scottish Highland Dress. It is named after Balmoral Castle, a Royal residence in Scotland....
  • baseball cap
    Baseball cap

    A baseball cap is a type of soft cap with a long, stiff bill that may either be curved or flat. The back of the cap may have a plastic, Velcro, or Elastomer adjuster so that it can be quickly adjusted to fit different wearers....
  • beanie
    Beanie

    Beanie is the name for two distinct types of cap or hat. The name "beanie" probably comes from the early-20th century slang term "bean," meaning "head"....
     or skully
  • beret
    Beret

    A beret is a soft round cap, usually of wool felt, with a flat crown, which is worn by both men and women and traditionally associated with France....
  • bobble hat
    Bobble hat

    A bobble hat is a colloquial term for a knit beanie or tuque trimmed with a yarn "bobble" or pom-pon upon the crown....
  • boonie hat
    Boonie hat

    A boonie hat is a form of wide-brim hat commonly used by militaries. Its design is similar to a bucket hat but with a stiffer brim. Often a fabric tape band of 'branch loops' is sewn around the Hat#Parts_of_a_hat of the hat....
  • Borsalino
    Borsalino

    Borsalino is the name of a hat company known particularly for its Fedora hats. Established in 1857, Borsalino produces felt from Belgium rabbit hair at its factory in Alessandria, Italy....
  • bucket hat
    Bucket hat

    A bucket hat is a soft cotton hat with a wide and downwards sloping brim which is worn by both men and women. The brim offers shade from the sun for the eyes and face....
      also fishing hat (UK) or Dixie Cup hat (US)
  • capuchon
    Capuchon

    A capuchon is a cone-shaped ceremonial hat worn during the Mardi Gras celebration in the Cajun areas of southwestern Louisiana. The rural Mardi Gras celebration is based on early begging rituals, similar to those still celebrated by mummers, Wassailings and celebrants of Halloween....
  • chicken hat
  • chupalla
    Chupalla

    The chupalla is a traditional Chilean horseman's hat made of straw. Many people in rural areas of Zona Central, Chile use it as well. In addition, it is often used when dancing the cueca and during Chilean rodeos....
  • cloche hat
    Cloche hat

    The cloche hat is a fitted, bell -shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s. Caroline Reboux is the creator of the cloche hat.Cloche hats were usually made of felt so that they conformed to the head....
  • cricket cap
    Cricket cap

    A cricket cap is a type of soft cap, often made from felt that is a traditional form of headwear for players of the game of cricket, regardless of age or gender....
  • peaked cap, also combination cap
  • cowboy hat
    Cowboy hat

    The cowboy hat is a high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat best known as the defining piece of attire for the American cowboy. Today it is worn by many people, and is particularly associated with ranch workers in the western and southern United States, western Canada and northern Mexico, with country music, and for participants in the North Ameri...
  • engineer's cap
  • fedora
  • fiddler's cap, also Dutch boy cap
  • Fitted cap
  • floppy fedora
  • flat cap
    Flat cap

    A flat cap is a rounded men's cap with a small stiff brim in front. Cloths used to make the cap range from tweed to cotton driving caps for summer wear, sometimes featuring air vents....
    , also bunnet, cloth cap, driver cap, golf cap, or Windsor cap
  • flip hat, baseball style cap with the brim intentionally flipped upwards (associated with punk rock
    Punk rock

    Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
    )
  • garrison cap
    Garrison cap

    Image:Luftwaffen Schiffchen.jpg garrison cap, garrison cover, wedge cap, flight cap, side cap, forage cap,overseas cap, or piss-cutter cap is a foldable cap with straight sides and a creased or hollow crown sloping to the back where it is parted....
  • Greek fisherman's cap, also captain's cap
  • Ivy cap or scally cap, the typical Irish hat
  • kepi
    Kepi

    The kepi is a cap with a flat circular top and a visor or peak . The word came into the English language from French , in which it is written with an acute accent: k?pi....
  • kofia
    Kofia (hat)

    The Kofia is a brimless cylindrical hat with a flat crown, worn by men in parts of Africa, especially in Muslim and Swahili cultures.See also...
    , worn by Swahili people
    Swahili people

    The Swahili are a people and culture found on the coast of East Africa, mainly the coastal regions and the islands of Kenya and Tanzania, and north Mozambique....
    , see kufi
    Kufi

    A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, rounded cap worn by people of African descent. Please refer to the taqiyah article for Muslim customs....
  • kufi
    Kufi

    A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, rounded cap worn by people of African descent. Please refer to the taqiyah article for Muslim customs....
    , traditional cap worn by men of African descent
  • Muir cap, the traditional leather biker-style cap worn by leathermen
  • nasaq, the crocheted headgear of some Canadian
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     Inuit
    Inuit

    Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska, United States....
  • nightcap
    Nightcap (headgear)

    A nightcap is a cap worn at night to keep the head warm or hair in place....
  • Newsboy cap
    Newsboy cap

    The newsboy cap is a casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. Sometimes also referred to as the: Baker Boy, Apple Cap, Eight Panel, Jay Gatsby , Fisherman's Cap and Lundberg Stetson....
    , also Gatsby cap
  • Pakol
  • Rogatywka
    Rogatywka

    Rogatywka is the Poland generic name for an asymmetry, peaked, four-pointed cap used by various Polish military formations throughout the ages....
  • salakot
    Salakot

    The salakot is a traditional wide-brimmed hat in the Philippines. It is usually made of either rattan or Phragmites. An ancient tradition recounts that the first Malay settlers in the archipelago purchased the valleys and plains of the Island of Panay in the Philippines from the native Aetas in exchange of a golden salakot and a very long...
  • skullcap
    Skullcap

    A skullcap can be:* In anatomy, the top part of the skull * Headgear** A Kippah or Kippah, a small cloth skullcap worn by observant Judaism men all the time, or by less observant Jewish men and some Jewish women during religious services....
  • ski hat
  • sombrero
    Sombrero

    In English language-speaking countries sombrero typically refers to a type of hat originating in Mexico. The English word sombrero is a loan word from Spanish, where the term is used to refer to any hat with a brim....
  • straw hat
    Straw hat

    A straw hat can refer to any brimmed hat that is woven out of straw. This hat is designed to protect the head from the sun, as well as protect against heatstroke....
  • student cap
    Student cap

    In various European countries, 'student caps' of different types are or have been worn, either as a marker of a common identity, as is the case in the Nordic countries, or to identify the bearer as member of a smaller corporation within the larger group of students, as is the case with the caps worn by members of German Studentenverbindungen....
  • Suma cap
  • Tam o'shanter or Tammy
  • tam
    Tam (cap)

    The tam is a tall, round knitted cap, which is often brightly coloured....
    , most commonly associated with the Rastafari movement
    Rastafari movement

    The Rastafari movement is a monotheism, Abrahamic religions, new religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah or Jah Rastafari....
  • taqiya
    Taqiyah (cap)

    The taqiyah, also spelled tagiyah, gefiyah, keffiyah, and kufiyyah is a short, rounded cap worn by Muslim men. This cap is worn by Arab Muslims with the thawb or salwar kameez....
    , also tagiyah--resembles the yarmulke
  • Topi (cap), traditional cap worn by Muslim
    Muslim

    :A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
     men, also called a taqiyah (cap)
    Taqiyah (cap)

    The taqiyah, also spelled tagiyah, gefiyah, keffiyah, and kufiyyah is a short, rounded cap worn by Muslim men. This cap is worn by Arab Muslims with the thawb or salwar kameez....
  • tuque
    Tuque

    Toque or tuque is the Canadian term for a knitted hat, originally of wool though now often of synthetic fibers, that is designed to provide warmth in winter....
    , also knit hat, knit cap, sock cap, stocking cap, watch cap, toboggan, ski cap or skull cap
  • turban
    Turban

    The turban is a headgear consisting of a long scarf-like single piece of cloth wound around either the head itself or an inner hat. The word "turban" is a common umbrella term, loosely used in English to refer to several sorts of head wrap....
  • yarmulke
    Kippah

    A kippah or yarmulke is a thin, slightly-rounded skullcap traditionally worn at all times by observant Jewish men, and sometimes by both men and women in Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism communities....
    , also kippa, kippah or skullcap, Jew
    Jew

    A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
    ish traditional
  • welder's cap
  • Vueltiao
    Sombrero Vueltiao

    The sombrero vueltiao or sombrero vueltiado is a traditional hat from Colombia and one of its symbols. It is made out of Gynerium sagittatum known locally as ca?a flecha, a type of cane that grows in the region....
     A Colombian typical hat with woven and sewn dried tinted palm strips and indigenous figures.
  • yachting cap
  • zucchetto
    Zucchetto

    The zucchetto , also called pileolus in Latin, is a small cap worn by clergy of the Roman Catholic Church and within Anglicanism . It was first adopted for practical reasons — to keep the clergy's tonsured heads warm in cold, damp churches — and has survived as a traditional item of dress....
  • Zulu crown, see kufi
    Kufi

    A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, rounded cap worn by people of African descent. Please refer to the taqiyah article for Muslim customs....
     for information


Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today


Men's
  • Akubra
    Akubra

    Akubra is an Australian brand of hat, whose wide-brimmed styles are a distinctive part of Culture of Australia, especially in rural areas. The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal word for head covering....
  • Anthony Eden hat
    Anthony Eden hat

    An "Anthony Eden" hat, or simply an "Anthony Eden", was a silk-brimmed, black felt Homburg of the kind favoured in the 1930s by Anthony Eden, later 1st Earl of Avon ....
  • beaver
    Beaver hat

    In much of Europe during the period 1550-1850, hats made of Felt beaver fur were fashionable. The soft, yet resilient material could be easily combed to make a variety of hat shapes including the familiar Top hat....
  • Beefeaters' hat
  • bicorne
    Bicorne

    The bicorne or bicorn is an archaic form of hat associated with the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Much worn by European and The Americas army and navy officers, it is most readily associated with Napol?on Bonaparte....
  • boater
    Boater (hat)

    A boater is a kind of hat associated with sailing and boating.It is normally made of sennit straw and has a stiff or soft flat crown and brim, typically with a ribbon around the crown, which is often in colours representing a school, rowing crew or similar institution....
    , also basher, skimmer
  • bowler
    Bowler hat

    File:Olga Petrova with Knox Riding Hat,1915.jpgThe bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby or billycock, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester....
    , also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby
  • cabbage-tree hat a hat woven from leaves of the cabbage tree
  • capotain
    Capotain

    A capotain, capatain or copotain is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical hat, usually black, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe....
     (and women) - a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black - also, copotain, copatain
  • caroline - 17th Century
  • carriage hat - 1780s-1820s
  • caubeen
    Caubeen

    A caubeen is an Irish soldier's headdress, a variation on the beret or tam o'shanter. It is taken from the traditional Irish peasants' headdress....
     - Irish hat
  • cavalier hat
    Cavalier hat

    A cavalier hat is a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with an ostrich plume. Cavalier hats get their name from supporters of Charles I of England during the English Civil War, known as Cavalier....
    , also chevaliers, wide brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes
  • chapeau-bras, also chapeau de bras - 18th to early-19th-century folding bicorne
    Bicorne

    The bicorne or bicorn is an archaic form of hat associated with the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Much worn by European and The Americas army and navy officers, it is most readily associated with Napol?on Bonaparte....
     hat carried under one arm
  • Chaperon
    Chaperon (headgear)

    Chaperon was a form of hood or, later, highly versatile hat worn in all parts of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Initially a utilitarian garment, it first grew a long partly decorative tail behind, and then developed into a complex, versatile and expensive headgear after what was originally the vertical opening for the face began to be u...
     adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hat
  • chimney-pot hat, also lum-hat, Victorian, also worn by clerics in the Greek Orthodox Church
  • cocked hat
    Cocked hat

    The cocked hat is a style of formal headgear, or hat, worn by certain civilian, Army and Navy officials from the mid-19th century until the beginning of World War II....
  • deerstalker
    Deerstalker

    A deerstalker is a type of hat that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking. Because of the hat's popular association with Sherlock Holmes, it is also a stereotypical hat of a detective....
    , hunting cap with fold-down ears, associated with Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
    , Elmer Fudd
    Elmer Fudd

    Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters. He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Brothers cartoon pantheon ....
    , and Holden Caulfield
    Holden Caulfield

    Holden Caulfield is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye....
    .
  • fedora
    Fedora (hat)

    A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the Hat#Parts of a hat and pinched in the front on both sides. Similar hats with a C-crown are occasionally called fedoras....
  • fez
    Fez (clothing)

    The fez , or Tarboosh ?????, not to be confused with North African Checheya, is a red felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone....
  • homburg
    Homburg (hat)

    A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or Fedora ; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is...
  • karakul
    Karakul (hat)

    A Qaraqul hat is a hat made from the fur of the Qaraqul breed of Domestic sheep. The fur from which it is made is referred to as Astrakhan, broadtail, qaraqulcha, or Persian lamb....
  • kolpik
    Kolpik

    A kolpik is a type of traditional headgear worn in families of many Chassidic Rebbes , by unmarried children on Shabbat, and by Rebbes on special occasions....
  • Panama hat
    Panama hat

    A Panama hat or just Panama is a traditional brimmed hat of Ecuadorian origin that is made from the plaited leaves of the toquilla straw plant ....
  • Peci
    Peci

    A peci is a cap of Indonesia Muslim origin in the shape of a truncated cone similar to Fez but almost always made of black felt. Sometimes in Indonesia, the word "peci" can be substituted by "songkok or kopiah ....
  • pork pie
    Pork pie hat

    A pork pie hat or porkpie hat is a type of hat made of felt or, less commonly, straw. It is somewhat similar to a Trilby or a Fedora , but with a flat top....
  • shtreimel
    Shtreimel

    A shtreimel is a fur hat worn by many married Haredi Judaism men, particularly members of Hasidic Judaism groups, on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions....
  • spodik
    Spodik

    A spodik is a tall fur hat worn by some Haredi Hasidic Judaism, particularly members of sects originating in Congress Poland. Spodiks should not be confused with shtreimels, which are a similar type of hat also worn by Hasidim....
  • sombrero
    Sombrero

    In English language-speaking countries sombrero typically refers to a type of hat originating in Mexico. The English word sombrero is a loan word from Spanish, where the term is used to refer to any hat with a brim....
  • top hat
    Top Hat

    Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
    , also stovepipe hat
  • tricorne
    Tricorne

    The tricorne is a style of hat that was popular during the late 17th century and 18th century, falling out of style shortly before the French Revolution....
  • trilby
    Trilby

    A trilby hat is a soft felt men's hat with a narrow brim, a deeply indented crown, and a pinch at the front. Traditionally it was made from rabbit hair felt, but is now sometimes made from other materials, including tweed and wool....
  • ushanka
    Ushanka

    An ushanka is a Russian fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap, or tied at the chin to protect the ears from the cold....
  • war bonnet
    War bonnet

    Feathered war bonnets were a military decoration developed by the Plains Indians. The eagle was considered by the Indian as the greatest and most powerful of all birds and thus, the finest bonnets were made out of its feathers....


Women's
  • bandeau hat
  • beehive
  • bergère hat
    Bergère hat

    A berg?re hat is a flat-brimmed straw hat with a shallow crown, usually trimmed with ribbon and flowers. It could be worn in various ways with the brim folded back or turned up or down at whim....
  • bloomer
  • bongrace - a wide brimmed hat, 17th/18th century
  • Breton
  • capeline - 18th/19th century
  • capotain
    Capotain

    A capotain, capatain or copotain is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical hat, usually black, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe....
     (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
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
    .
  • Nón quai thao, Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
    .


Unclassified
  • Archer's bonnet
  • balibuntal - straw hat from the Philippines
  • castor or caster - beaver or rabbit
  • chip hat
  • cloche
    Cloche hat

    The cloche hat is a fitted, bell -shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s. Caroline Reboux is the creator of the cloche hat.Cloche hats were usually made of felt so that they conformed to the head....
  • cockle hat
  • cony or coney
  • coolie hat
  • copintank, also copentank, coptank, copitaine
  • cordies
  • Cossack
    Cossack

    The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
     hat
  • crinoline , also gibus-hat
  • demicastor hat
  • Directoire
  • Dolly Varden
  • fan-tail hat
  • flat
  • Gainsborough
  • Garbo hat
  • Garibaldi
    Giuseppe Garibaldi

    Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italians military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection....
     hat
  • gipsy hat
  • gossamer hat
  • grebe hat
  • halo-brim hat
  • the Hat Terrai Gurkha
    Hat Terrai Gurkha

    File:Gurkha IOC 1.jpgThe Hat Terai Gurkha is the name of the headgear worn by officers of the Gurkha Contingent in Singapore. A distinctive part of the Gurkha not worn by any other member of the Singapore Police Force, it is named after the Terrai region in Nepal, a location linked to the events surrounding the Gurkha War which first introd...
    , worn only by Gurkha Contingent
    Gurkha Contingent

    File:Gurkha IOC 1.jpgThe Gurkha Contingent , or ?????,Nepali is a line department of the Singapore Police Force. Members of the GC are trained to be highly-skilled and are selected for their display of strong discipline and dedication in their tasks....
     officers in Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
  • Homburg
    Homburg (hat)

    A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or Fedora ; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is...
    ; a black Homburg was also known as an "Anthony Eden
    Anthony Eden hat

    An "Anthony Eden" hat, or simply an "Anthony Eden", was a silk-brimmed, black felt Homburg of the kind favoured in the 1930s by Anthony Eden, later 1st Earl of Avon ....
    " (after the politician Anthony Eden
    Anthony Eden

    Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, Order of the Garter, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British people Conservative Party politician, who was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including during World War II....
    )
  • hunting hat
  • jerry
  • kausia
    Kausia

    A kausia was a flat Ancient Macedonians hat which was worn during the Hellenistic period, and was also use in lion hunting. Depictions of the kausia can be found on a variety of coins, from the Mediterranean to the Indo-Greek kingdom in northern India....
  • Kevenhuller
  • kiss-me-quick hat
  • Leghorn hat
  • mandarin hat
  • Manilla hat
  • marquis hat
  • matinée hat
  • Merry Widow hat
  • Moab
  • montera
    Montera

    The montera is a hat traditionally worn by Bullfighting. The montera is fully decorated and matadors feel appreciative to wear them.The suit that the matadors wear is called el Traje de Luces or the suit of lights, it is titled this because of the sequins on it that make the hat appear to shine in the light....
  • mourning hat
  • mousquetaire
  • muff-box
  • Müller hat
  • mushroom
  • petasos
    Petasos

    A petasos is a style of hat, usually made of wool felt, leather or straw, with a broad, floppy brim. It was worn primarily by farmers and travellers in classical times, and was considered characteristic of rural people....
  • pill box hat
  • sugar loaf
  • veiled hat, also bird cage hat


Caps


Caps worn by men in the past, or rarely worn today

  • aviator's cap
  • barretina
    Barretina

    A barretina is a traditional Catalonia hat that was frequently worn by men. It is a hat in the form of a bag, made of wool, usually red, or sometimes purple....
  • capeline
    Capeline

    Capeline is the name given to two distinct types of medieval helmetThe first was a steel skullcap usually worn by archers that continued to be worn into the 17th century by musketeers....
     - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
  • cap'n'bells ("Jester cap" or "jester hat")
  • Pileus (hat)
    Pileus (hat)

    [Image:Dioscuro cordonata2.jpg|thumb|The pileus particularly identifies the Dioscuri The pileus , also pilleus or pilleum, was, in Ancient Greece, where it was the pilidion, and in Ancient Rome, a brimless, felt cap, somewhat similar to a fez ....
  • Phrygian cap
    Phrygian cap

    The Phrygian cap is a soft, red, conical hat with the top pulled forward, worn in antiquity by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia....
  • smoking cap
    Smoking cap

    Smoking caps are caps worn while Tobacco smoking to stop the hair from smelling of smoke. They are similar to the smoking jacket, though their use, even in Victorian times, was not necessarily as widespread....


Caps worn by women in the past

  • mob-cap
  • pinner


Caps worn only by nobility and only on ceremonial occasions

  • Cap of Maintenance
    Cap of Maintenance

    A Cap of Maintenance is a ceremonial crimson velvet cap lined with Stoat. It is one of the insignia of the British monarchy, and paraded directly before the monarch during the coronation procession or on such state occasions as the State Opening of Parliament....


Bonnets


Bonnets for women

  • Cabriolet
  • Capote
    Capote

    Capote may refer to:...
     - 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
    VISOR

    In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used by the blindness to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device Scanner the electromagnetic spectrum, creating Visual perception input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves....
     that could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, 19th century


Bonnets for men

  • glengarry
    Glengarry

    Glengarry is a boat-shaped cap without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material with a toorie or bobble on top and ribbons hanging down behind....
     bonnet
  • feather bonnet
    Feather bonnet

    The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highlands infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I....
    , the traditional military headgear of many Scottish Highland regiments
  • tam o'shanter
    Tam o'shanter (hat)

    A tam o'shanter is a Scotland Bonnet worn by men which was named after the character Tam o' Shanter in the poem of that name by Robert Burns....
  • Frob head spectacular
  • Glassy Oh So Fine
  • Jobby head
  • Balmoral Bonnet, as worn by the Black Watch.


Helmets

See Helmet#Types of helmet
Helmet

A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries, a variation of the hat. The oldest use of helmets was by Ancient Greek soldiers, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from sword blows and arrows....


Hood
Hood (headgear)

A hood is a kind of headgear that covers most of the head and neck and sometimes the face. They may be worn for protection from the environment, for fashion, as a form of traditional Clothing or uniform, to prevent the wearer seeing or to prevent the wearer being identified....
s

  • bonnet head
  • Chaperon (headgear)
    Chaperon (headgear)

    Chaperon was a form of hood or, later, highly versatile hat worn in all parts of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Initially a utilitarian garment, it first grew a long partly decorative tail behind, and then developed into a complex, versatile and expensive headgear after what was originally the vertical opening for the face began to be u...
     adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hood and hat
  • Flemish hood
  • French hood
    French hood

    A French hood is a type of woman's headgear popular in Western Europe in the sixteenth century.The French hood is characterized by a rounded shape, contrasted with the angular 'English' or gable hood....
  • gable hood
    Gable hood

    A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an England woman's hat of c. 1500-1550, so-called because its pointed shape resembles the gable of a house....
  • hood - modern or historical, attached to tops or shirt
    Shirt

    A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. Originally an item of Undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become in American English a catch-all term for almost any upper-body garment other than outerwear such as sweaters or Coat , or undergarments such as brassiere ....
    s, overcoat
    Overcoat

    An overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment. Overcoats usually extend below the knee, but are sometimes mistakenly referred to as topcoats, which are short coats that end at or above the knees....
    s, cloak
    Cloak

    A cloak is a type of loose garment that is worn over indoor clothing and serves the same purpose as an overcoat—it protects the wearer from the cold, rain or wind for example, or it may form part of a fashionable outfit or uniform....
    s, etc
  • Capirote
    Capirote

    A Capirote is a pointy hat of conical form that is used in Spain.Historically, the capirote was a cardboard cone that flagellants in Spain would use....
    , AKA The Ku Klux Klan
    Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan is the name of several past and present secret domestic militant organizations in the United States, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists while hidden behind conical hats, masks and white robes....
     hood originally worn by Spanish
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
     Nazarenes
  • Mary Queen of Scots
  • Medieval hood
  • mourning hood
  • riding hood
  • Stuart hood
    Stuart Hood

    Stuart Hood is a Scotland novelist, translator and a former United Kingdom television producer and Controller of the BBC's most popular television network, BBC One....


  • 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


Headbands, headscarves, wimples

  • abaya
    Abaya

    The abaya "cloak" is an overgarment worn by some women in parts of the Islamic world. It is the traditional form of hijab, or Islamic dress, for many countries of the Arabian peninsula such as the United Arab Emirates, where it is the national dress....
  • buknuk
  • chador
    Chador

    A chador or chadar is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many Women in Iran in public spaces; it is one possible way in which a Women and Islam may follow the Islamic dress code known as hijab....
  • Chaperon (headgear)
    Chaperon (headgear)

    Chaperon was a form of hood or, later, highly versatile hat worn in all parts of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Initially a utilitarian garment, it first grew a long partly decorative tail behind, and then developed into a complex, versatile and expensive headgear after what was originally the vertical opening for the face began to be u...
     adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hat, hood and scarf
  • coif
    Coif

    A coif is a close fitting hat that covers the top, back, and sides of the head, worn by all classes in England and Scotland from the Middle Ages to the early seventeenth century ....
  • crispine 13th Century European women's style of padding hair in a net and headband
  • dupatta
    Dupatta

    Dupatta , Punjabi "Chunni" is a long scarf that is essential to many South Asian women's suits. Some "dupatta suits" include the shalwar kameez, the trouser suit, and the kurta....
    , also shayla or milfeh
  • khimar
  • headscarf
    Headscarf

    Headscarves are scarf covering most or all of the top of a woman's hair and her head. Headscarves may be worn for a variety of purposes, such as for warmth, for sanitation, for fashion or social distinction; with religious signifiance, to hide baldness, out of modesty, or other forms of social convention....
    , also khimar, hijab
    Hijab

    Hijab or ?ijab is the Arabic word for "curtain / cover" , based on the root ??? meaning "to cover, to veil, to shelter". In popular use, hijab means "head cover and modest dress for women" among Muslims, which most Islamic legal systems define as covering everything except the face, feet and hands in public....
    , ohrni
  • snood
    Snood (headgear)

    A snood is a type of headgear, historically worn by women over their long hair. In the most common form it resembles a close-fitting hood worn over the back of the head....
  • veil
    Veil

    A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, that is intended to cover some part of the head or face. As a religious item, it is intended to show honor to an object or space....
  • wimple
    Wimple

    The wimple is a garment of medieval Europe worn by women. It is a cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair....


Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face

  • See Mask
    Mask

    A mask is an article normally worn on the face, typically for protection, concealment, performance, or amusement. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes....
     for fuller list of masks.
  • balaclava (helmet) or skimask
  • boushiya
  • burqa
    Burqa

    A burqa is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions for the purpose of cloaking the entire body. It is worn over the usual daily clothing and removed when the woman returns to the sanctuary of the household ....
    , also burka, burga, burqua
  • diving mask
    Diving mask

    A diving mask is an item of diving equipment that allows scuba diving, free-diving, and snorkeling to see clearly underwater. When the human eye is in direct contact with water as opposed to air, its normal environment, light entering the eye is refracted by a different angle and the eye is unable to Focus the light....
  • full-face diving mask
  • gas mask
    Gas mask

    A gas mask is a mask worn over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling "airborne pollutants" and toxic gasses. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face....
  • niqab
    Niqab

    A niqab is a veil which covers the face, worn by some Muslim women as a part of sartorial hijab.Niqab is most common in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, and the UAE....
  • veil
    Veil

    A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, that is intended to cover some part of the head or face. As a religious item, it is intended to show honor to an object or space....
  • wedding veil
    Veil

    A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, that is intended to cover some part of the head or face. As a religious item, it is intended to show honor to an object or space....
  • visor
    VISOR

    In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used by the blindness to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device Scanner the electromagnetic spectrum, creating Visual perception input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves....
  • headband
    Headband

    A headband is a fashion accessory worn in the hair or around the forehead, usually to hold hair away from the face or eyes. Headbands generally consist of a loop of Elastomer material or a horseshoe-shaped piece of flexible plastic or metal....


Other headdress


Women's

  • alice band
  • bandanna
  • bandeau
    Bandeau

    A bandeau is literally a "band", in French language, worn around a woman's breasts. In the 1920s this referred to a simply shaped brassiere, usually of a soft fabric and delicate trimmings providing little support or shaping....
  • 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
    VISOR

    In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used by the blindness to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device Scanner the electromagnetic spectrum, creating Visual perception input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves....


Men's

  • Arab headdress
    • a white cap or skullcap: * taqiya
      Taqiyah (cap)

      The taqiyah, also spelled tagiyah, gefiyah, keffiyah, and kufiyyah is a short, rounded cap worn by Muslim men. This cap is worn by Arab Muslims with the thawb or salwar kameez....
      , also tagiyah, gahfiah
    • covered by the flowing scarf: ghutrah, also gutra, smagh, shmagh, kaffiyeh, kufiyyeh, keffiyeh
      Keffiyeh

      The 'keffiyeh' ), also known as a 'shmagh' , 'ghutrah' , or 'mashadah' is a traditional headdress for Arab men made of a square of cloth , usually cotton, folded and wrapped in various styles around the head....
      , keffiyah, kaffiye, keffiya
    • kept in place by a band around the cap and scarf: igal, also egal, agal, aqal, ogal
  • bandana
    Bandana

    Bandana can refer to:*Another name for a kerchief*Bandana *Bandana *Bandana, Kentucky, a small town in the United States...
    , also bandanna
  • visor
    VISOR

    In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used by the blindness to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device Scanner the electromagnetic spectrum, creating Visual perception input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves....
  • do-rag
    Do-rag

    A do-rag, also spelled doo-rag, du-rag, durag is a piece of cloth used to cover the head. A popular folk etymology claims that the term derives from drive-on rag, a term first used by U.S....
  • stocking cap
  • topor
    Topor (headgear)

    A topor is a type of conical headgear traditionally worn by grooms as part of the Bengali Hindu wedding ceremony. The topor is typically fragile, and white in colour....
     - Bengali men's wedding headgear


Jeweled

  • coronet
    Coronet

    A coronet is a small Crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. Unlike a crown, a coronet never has arches.The word stems from the Old French coronete, a diminutive of coronne , itself from the Latin corona ....
  • crown
    Crown (headgear)

    A crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents Political power, legitimacy, Crown of Immortality, righteousness, victory, Roman triumph, resurrection, honour and glory of life after death....
    • Imperial Crown of India
      Imperial Crown of India

      The Imperial Crown of India was the crown of the Sovereign as Emperor of India during the time of the British Raj. The crown is housed with, but is not part of, the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom....
    • Imperial State Crown
      Imperial State Crown

      The Imperial State Crown is one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.The Crown is of a design similar to St Edward's Crown: it includes a base of four Cross patt?e alternating with four fleur-de-lis, above which are four half-arches surmounted by a cross....
    • St Edward's Crown
  • tiara
    Tiara

    A tiara is a form of Crown . There are two possible types of crown that this word can refer to.Traditionally, the word "tiara" refers to a high crown, often with the shape of a cylinder narrowed at its top, made of fabric or leather, and richly ornamented....
  • Papal tiara
    Papal Tiara

    The Papal Tiara, also known as the Triple Tiara, or in Latin language as the 'Triregnum', and in Italian language as the 'Triregno', is the three-tiered Gemstone papal Crown , supposedly of Byzantine Empire and Persian Empire origin, that is a prominent symbol of the Pope....
  • diadem
    Diadem (personal wear)

    A diadem is a type of Crown , specifically an ornamental headband worn by Eastern monarchs and others as a badge of royalty. The word derives from the Greek language d??d??a diadema, from d??d?? diadeo to bind round, or fasten....


Wigs

  • toupee
    Toupee

    A toup?e is a Fake hair or partial Wig of natural or synthetic fibre worn to cover partial baldness or for theatrical purposes. While toup?es and hairpieces are typically associated with male wearers, some women also use hairpieces to lengthen existing hair, or cover partially exposed scalp....
  • wig


Headgear organised by function


Religious


Christian
  • Mitre
    MITRE

    The Mitre Corporation, officially trademarked as MITRE, is a public-interest not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia....
  • Mantilla
    Mantilla

    A mantilla is "a lightweight lace or silk scarf worn over the head and shoulders, often over a high comb, by women in Spain and Latin America" ....
  • wimple
    Wimple

    The wimple is a garment of medieval Europe worn by women. It is a cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair....

Catholic
  • Biretta
    Biretta

    The biretta is a square cap with three or four ridges or peaks, sometimes surmounted by a tuft, traditionally worn by Catholic Church hierarchy and some Anglican and Lutheran clergy....
  • Camauro
    Camauro

    A camauro is a cap traditionally worn by the Pope of the Catholic Church.Papal camauros are of red wool or velvet with white Stoat#Stoats_and_humans trim and are worn, usually in winter, in place of the zucchetto, which in turn takes the place of the biretta worn by other members of the clergy....
  • Cappello romano
    Cappello romano

    A cappello romano or saturno is a hat with a wide, circular brim and a rounded rim worn outdoors in some countries by Roman Catholic Church clergy, when dressed in a cassock....
  • Galero
    Galero

    A galero in the Roman Catholic Church is a large, broad-brimmed tasseled hat worn by clergy. Over the centuries the galero was eventually limited in use to individual cardinal as a Crown symbolizing the title of Prince of the Church....
  • Papal tiara
    Papal Tiara

    The Papal Tiara, also known as the Triple Tiara, or in Latin language as the 'Triregnum', and in Italian language as the 'Triregno', is the three-tiered Gemstone papal Crown , supposedly of Byzantine Empire and Persian Empire origin, that is a prominent symbol of the Pope....
  • Zucchetto
    Zucchetto

    The zucchetto , also called pileolus in Latin, is a small cap worn by clergy of the Roman Catholic Church and within Anglicanism . It was first adopted for practical reasons — to keep the clergy's tonsured heads warm in cold, damp churches — and has survived as a traditional item of dress....

Anglican
  • Canterbury cap
    Canterbury cap

    The Canterbury cap is a square cloth hat with sharp corners found in the Anglican communion, similar to the Counter-Reformation's biretta, the notable exception being that a Canterbury cap has four ridges, compared to the biretta's three....

Orthodox
  • Kamilavkion
  • Klobuk
    Klobuk

    A klobuk is an item of clerical clothing worn by Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches Monk#Eastern Orthodox monkss and bishops, especially in the Russian tradition....
  • Skufia
    Skufia

    A skufia is an item of clerical clothing worn by Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches monastics or awarded to clergy as a mark of honor ....


Muslim
  • Fez
    Fez (clothing)

    The fez , or Tarboosh ?????, not to be confused with North African Checheya, is a red felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone....
  • Taqiyah (cap)
    Taqiyah (cap)

    The taqiyah, also spelled tagiyah, gefiyah, keffiyah, and kufiyyah is a short, rounded cap worn by Muslim men. This cap is worn by Arab Muslims with the thawb or salwar kameez....
  • Peci
    Peci

    A peci is a cap of Indonesia Muslim origin in the shape of a truncated cone similar to Fez but almost always made of black felt. Sometimes in Indonesia, the word "peci" can be substituted by "songkok or kopiah ....


Jewish
  • Kippah
    Kippah

    A kippah or yarmulke is a thin, slightly-rounded skullcap traditionally worn at all times by observant Jewish men, and sometimes by both men and women in Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism communities....
     or yarmulke

Hasidic
  • Kashket
    Kashket

    A Kashket is a cap, usually made of felt, worn mainly by Hasidic children at present. Prior to the Second World War it was worn by almost all Polish Hasidic Jews...
  • Shtreimel
    Shtreimel

    A shtreimel is a fur hat worn by many married Haredi Judaism men, particularly members of Hasidic Judaism groups, on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions....
  • Spodik
    Spodik

    A spodik is a tall fur hat worn by some Haredi Hasidic Judaism, particularly members of sects originating in Congress Poland. Spodiks should not be confused with shtreimels, which are a similar type of hat also worn by Hasidim....


Buddhist
  • gasa
    Gasa (hat)

    A is any of several sorts of traditional hats of Japan. When preceded by a word specifying the type of hat, the word becomes gasa .One kind of kasa for Buddhism monks is made overly large, in a bowl or mushroom shape....

Sikh
  • Sikh turban
    Turban (Sikhism)

    Dastar or Pag?i in Punjabi language and Hindi is a mandatory headgear for Sikhs. Dastar is closely associated with Sikhism and is an important part of the Sikh culture....


Military and police

  • barretina
    Barretina

    A barretina is a traditional Catalonia hat that was frequently worn by men. It is a hat in the form of a bag, made of wool, usually red, or sometimes purple....
  • Beefeaters'
    Yeomen Warders

    "Beefeater" redirects here. For other uses, see Beefeater .The Yeomen Warders of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, popularly known as the Beefeaters, are ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London....
     hat
  • bearskin
    Bearskin

    A bearskin is a tall fur cap, usually worn as part of a ceremonial military uniform. Traditionally, the bearskin was the headgear of grenadiers, and is still worn by regiments of grenadiers and foot guards in various armies....
  • beret
    Beret

    A beret is a soft round cap, usually of wool felt, with a flat crown, which is worn by both men and women and traditionally associated with France....
  • bersagliere
  • bicorne
    Bicorne

    The bicorne or bicorn is an archaic form of hat associated with the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Much worn by European and The Americas army and navy officers, it is most readily associated with Napol?on Bonaparte....
  • boonie hat
    Boonie hat

    A boonie hat is a form of wide-brim hat commonly used by militaries. Its design is similar to a bucket hat but with a stiffer brim. Often a fabric tape band of 'branch loops' is sewn around the Hat#Parts_of_a_hat of the hat....
  • busby
    Busby

    Busby is the English language name for the Hungarian language pr?mes cs?k? or kucsma, a military headgear made of fur, worn by Hungarian Hussar....
  • campaign hat
    Campaign hat

    A campaign hat is a broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown pinched at the four corners. It is associated with World War I ground forces of the United States Army, contemporary U.S....
    , also drill instructor hat, drill sergeant hat, ranger hat, sergeant hat, Smokey Bear hat
  • Caubeen
    Caubeen

    A caubeen is an Irish soldier's headdress, a variation on the beret or tam o'shanter. It is taken from the traditional Irish peasants' headdress....
  • chapeau-bras
    Chapeau

    "Chapeau" is a French term signifying a hat or other covering for the head. In heraldry, it is used as a mark of ecclesiastical dignity, especially that of cardinal s, which is called the red chapeau....
    , also chapeau de bras - 18th to early-19th-century folding bicorne
    Bicorne

    The bicorne or bicorn is an archaic form of hat associated with the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Much worn by European and The Americas army and navy officers, it is most readily associated with Napol?on Bonaparte....
     hat carried under one arm
  • Civil War cap, also rebel cap
  • Custodian helmet
    Custodian helmet

    Custodian helmet or centurion helmet is the correct name for the style of helmet worn by many Policing in the United Kingdoms in England and Wales....
    , head wear of the British police officer, ranks of Sergeant
    Sergeant

    Sergeant is a Military rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....
     and Constable
    Constable

    A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in Police. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions....
  • Envelope Busby, worn by Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada
  • feather bonnet
    Feather bonnet

    The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highlands infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I....
  • flying helmet - closely fitting solid helmet designed to resist impacts within the cockpit of military aircraft - colloquially known as a 'bone dome
  • garrison cap
    Garrison cap

    Image:Luftwaffen Schiffchen.jpg garrison cap, garrison cover, wedge cap, flight cap, side cap, forage cap,overseas cap, or piss-cutter cap is a foldable cap with straight sides and a creased or hollow crown sloping to the back where it is parted....
    , also campaign cap, cunt cap, flight cap, garrison hat, overseas cap
  • gas mask
    Gas mask

    A gas mask is a mask worn over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling "airborne pollutants" and toxic gasses. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face....
  • Glengarry
    Glengarry

    Glengarry is a boat-shaped cap without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material with a toorie or bobble on top and ribbons hanging down behind....
    , also Glengarry bonnet, Glengarry cap
  • Hardee hat
    Hardee hat

    The Hardee hat, also known as the Model 1858 Dress Hat and sometimes nicknamed the "Jefferson Davis", was the Uniform of the Union Army for enlisted men in the U.S....
  • helmet
    Helmet

    A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries, a variation of the hat. The oldest use of helmets was by Ancient Greek soldiers, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from sword blows and arrows....
  • jeep cap
    Jeep cap

    The jeep cap is generally like a toboggan cap with a short, baseball cap-like brim attached to it, made mostly from knitted yarn, originally wool but now more often acrylic....
  • kepi
    Kepi

    The kepi is a cap with a flat circular top and a visor or peak . The word came into the English language from French , in which it is written with an acute accent: k?pi....
  • patrol cap
    Patrol cap

    A patrol cap, also known as a field cap is a soft cap with a soft, rounded visor, and flat top, worn by military personnel in the field when a combat helmet is not required....
  • peaked cap
    Peaked cap

    A peaked cap, forage cap or combination cap is a form of headgear worn by the armed forces of many nations and also by many uniformed civilian organizations such as Law enforcement agency....
    , also known as service cap or combination cap
  • shako
    Shako

    A shako is a tall, cylindrical military cap, usually with a peak or visor and sometimes tapered at the top. It is usually adorned with some kind of ornamental plate or Cap badge on the front, metallic or otherwise, and often has a feather, Hackle, or pompon attached at the top....
  • slouch hat
    Slouch hat

    A slouch hat is a wide-brimmed felt hat with a chinstrap most commonly worn as part of a military uniform. It is a survivor of the felt hats worn by eighteenth century armies....
  • Spanish hat


Officials and civil workers

  • Chinese hat knob
  • Manchu official headwear
    Manchu official headwear

    Gong maois the headwear of an official during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China consisted of a black velvet cap, or a hat woven in rattan or similar materials, both with a finial on top....
  • Ming official headwear
    Ming official headwear

    The headwear of a Han Chinese official during Ming Dynasty China consisted of a black hat with two wing-like flaps on each side called the wushamao ....


Other specialist headgear

  • chef's hat
    Chef's uniform

    The traditional chef's uniform, including toque , white double breasted jacket, and checked pants are instantly recognized by most members of the Western world, especially in this day of television's celebrity chefs....
    , also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
  • coronet
    Coronet

    A coronet is a small Crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. Unlike a crown, a coronet never has arches.The word stems from the Old French coronete, a diminutive of coronne , itself from the Latin corona ....
  • cowboy hat
    Cowboy hat

    The cowboy hat is a high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat best known as the defining piece of attire for the American cowboy. Today it is worn by many people, and is particularly associated with ranch workers in the western and southern United States, western Canada and northern Mexico, with country music, and for participants in the North Ameri...
  • crown
    Crown (headgear)

    A crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents Political power, legitimacy, Crown of Immortality, righteousness, victory, Roman triumph, resurrection, honour and glory of life after death....
  • fire-hat
  • gas mask
    Gas mask

    A gas mask is a mask worn over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling "airborne pollutants" and toxic gasses. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face....
  • mortarboard
  • night cap
    Nightcap (garment)

    A nightcap is a warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas or a nightgown . They were invented in the Middle Ages to hinder propagation of head louse....
  • nurse's cap
    Nurse's cap

    A nurse's cap or nursing cap is part of the female nurse's uniform, introduced early in the history of the profession. The cap's original purpose was to keep the nurse's hair neatly in place and present a modest appearance....
  • power dome
  • printer's hat
    Printer's hat

    A printer's hat is a traditional, box-shaped, folded paper hat, formerly worn by craft tradesmen such as carpenters, masons, painters and printers....
     also pressman's hat
  • Santa
    Santa Claus

    Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus....
    's hat
  • scrum-cap
  • shower cap
    Shower cap

    A shower cap is a cap worn while showering or bathing, to protect hair from becoming wet. They are used by both men and women.Many are produced by joining two layers of fabric together in order to make the shower cap not only waterproof but aesthetic also....
    , a flexible plastic covering to protect the hair from getting wet, as used when taking a shower.
  • space helmet
  • swimming cap
  • topor
    Topor (headgear)

    A topor is a type of conical headgear traditionally worn by grooms as part of the Bengali Hindu wedding ceremony. The topor is typically fragile, and white in colour....
     - Bengali men's wedding headgear
  • visor
    VISOR

    In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used by the blindness to artificially provide them with a sense of sight. The device Scanner the electromagnetic spectrum, creating Visual perception input, and transmits it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves....
  • wedding veil
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National dress; association with a country or people

  • Aso Oke Hat
    Aso Oke Hat

    An Aso Oke Hat is a traditional Yoruba people hat that is made of hand woven African fabric, see Aso Oke fabric, cotton, velvet, or damask. In the Yoruba language, this hat is called a fila....
     - Yoruba people
    Yoruba people

    Yoruba people are one of the largest ethno-linguistic group or ethnic groups in west Africa. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language ....
  • barretina
    Barretina

    A barretina is a traditional Catalonia hat that was frequently worn by men. It is a hat in the form of a bag, made of wool, usually red, or sometimes purple....
     - Catalan
    Catalonia

    Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
  • bearskin hat
  • beret
    Beret

    A beret is a soft round cap, usually of wool felt, with a flat crown, which is worn by both men and women and traditionally associated with France....
     - French, Basque
    Basque people

    The Basques are a people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France.The name Basque derives from the ancient tribe of the Vascones, described by Ancient Greece historian Strabo as living south of the western Pyrenees and north of the Ebro River, in modern day Navarre and northern Aragon....
  • Bhatgaunle Topi - Nepal
    Nepal

    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....
  • Breton, also Bretonne
  • chupalla
    Chupalla

    The chupalla is a traditional Chilean horseman's hat made of straw. Many people in rural areas of Zona Central, Chile use it as well. In addition, it is often used when dancing the cueca and during Chilean rodeos....
     - Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
    an
  • clop - Romanian
    Romanians

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  • coolie hat
  • coonskin hat - American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     frontiersman
  • Cossack
    Cossack

    The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
     hat
  • Dogon hat - Dogon people
    Dogon people

    The Dogon are a group of people living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger River bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region....
    , West Africa
    West Africa

    West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
  • fez
    Fez (clothing)

    The fez , or Tarboosh ?????, not to be confused with North African Checheya, is a red felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone....
  • feathered headdress
  • Four Winds hat
    Four Winds hat

    The Four Winds hat is one version of traditional man's hat of the Sami people. The basis is a simple blue cylinder, decorated with a red band with braid patterns, but the top is a large, four-cornered star, colored bright blue with parts bright red and yellow....
  • Fulani straw hat - Fula people
    Fula people

    Fula or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa....
    , West Africa
    West Africa

    West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
  • glengarry bonnet
  • Ghonnella
    Ghonnella

    The ghonnella, pronounced "awe-nel-la" , sometimes referred to as a Faldetta, was a form of women's head dress and shawl, or hooded cloak, unique to the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo....
     or Faldetta - Maltese
    Malta

    Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
  • Haida hat
  • Kofia
    Kofia

    Kofia was a Sweden-Arabic musical group based in G?teborg that existed during the late 70s and early 80s. They played left-wing music supporting Palestinians against Israel....
     - Swahili people
    Swahili people

    The Swahili are a people and culture found on the coast of East Africa, mainly the coastal regions and the islands of Kenya and Tanzania, and north Mozambique....
    , East Africa
    East Africa

    East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
    , see kufi
    Kufi

    A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, rounded cap worn by people of African descent. Please refer to the taqiyah article for Muslim customs....
  • Kufi
    Kufi

    A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, rounded cap worn by people of African descent. Please refer to the taqiyah article for Muslim customs....
     - Africans
  • Leopard cap - Igbo people
    Igbo people

    Igbo people are an ethnic group living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria. They speak Igbo language, which includes various Igboid languages and dialects; today, a majority of them speak English language alongside Igbo as a result of British Empire....
    , West Africa
    West Africa

    West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
  • Mandarin
    Mandarin (bureaucrat)

    A Mandarin was a bureaucrat in Imperial era of Chinese history, and also in History of Vietnam where the system of Imperial examinations and scholar-bureaucrats was adopted under Chinese influence....
     hat - Chinese
    Han Chinese

    Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
  • mokorotlo - Basotho/Lesotho
    Lesotho

    Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave ? entirely surrounded by the South Africa. Formerly Basutoland, it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations....
  • Montenegrin cap
    Montenegrin cap

    The Montenegrin cap is a cap traditionally worn by Serbs or Montenegrins.The cap is originally in the shape of a flat cylinder , having a red upper surface ....
     - Montenegrins
    Montenegrins

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  • Pakol - Pashtun people
    Pashtun people

    Pashtuns , also called Pathans , ethnic Afghans, are an Eastern Iranian ethno-linguistic group with populations primarily in Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan....
    , Afghanistan
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
  • Phrygian cap
    Phrygian cap

    The Phrygian cap is a soft, red, conical hat with the top pulled forward, worn in antiquity by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia....
     - Roman
    Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
    , French
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • qeleshe
    Qeleshe

    A qeleshe is a traditional skull cap, which is worn by Albanians men, usually from northern highlands of Albania or Kosovo and particularly in the Arberesh villages in Italy....
     - Albanian
    Albanians

    The Albanian people , from southeast Europe, live in Albania and neighbouring countries and speak the Albanian language. About half of Albanians live in Albania, with other large groups residing in Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro....
  • šajkaca - Serbian
    Serbs

    Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
  • salakot
    Salakot

    The salakot is a traditional wide-brimmed hat in the Philippines. It is usually made of either rattan or Phragmites. An ancient tradition recounts that the first Malay settlers in the archipelago purchased the valleys and plains of the Island of Panay in the Philippines from the native Aetas in exchange of a golden salakot and a very long...
     - Filipino
    Filipino people

    Filipino people refers to an ethnic group in the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia. The name Filipino was derived from Las Islas Filipinas , the Spanish language name given to the Philippines in the 16th century, by Spanish explorer Ruy L?pez de Villalobos....
  • sari
    Sari

    A sari or saree or shari is a female garment in the Indian subcontinent. A sari is a strip of unstitched cloth, ranging from four to nine metres in length that is draped over the body in various styles....
     - India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  • Shripech - Traditional Crown of Monarch of Nepal
  • slouch hat
    Slouch hat

    A slouch hat is a wide-brimmed felt hat with a chinstrap most commonly worn as part of a military uniform. It is a survivor of the felt hats worn by eighteenth century armies....
    , also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
  • tam o'shanter
    Tam o'shanter (hat)

    A tam o'shanter is a Scotland Bonnet worn by men which was named after the character Tam o' Shanter in the poem of that name by Robert Burns....
     - Scottish
    Scotland

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  • top hat
    Top Hat

    Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
     - English
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • topor
    Topor (headgear)

    A topor is a type of conical headgear traditionally worn by grooms as part of the Bengali Hindu wedding ceremony. The topor is typically fragile, and white in colour....
     - Bengali men's wedding headgear
  • turban
    Turban

    The turban is a headgear consisting of a long scarf-like single piece of cloth wound around either the head itself or an inner hat. The word "turban" is a common umbrella term, loosely used in English to refer to several sorts of head wrap....
  • tuque
    Tuque

    Toque or tuque is the Canadian term for a knitted hat, originally of wool though now often of synthetic fibers, that is designed to provide warmth in winter....
     or toque - Canadian
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    , esp. French-Canadian/Québécois
    Québécois

    The French language word 'Qu?b?cois' I would now like to ask you about your ethnic ancestry, heritage or background. What were the ethnic or cultural origins of your ancestors? 2) In addition to "Canadian", what were the other ethnic or cultural origins of your ancestors on first coming to North America?" This survey did not list possibl...
  • ushanka
    Ushanka

    An ushanka is a Russian fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap, or tied at the chin to protect the ears from the cold....
     - Russian
    Russians

    The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
  • Welsh hat
    Welsh hat

    The Welsh hat worn by women as part of Wales national costume is a tall stovepipe-style hat, similar to a top hat. It is still worn by women, and particularly schoolgirls, in Wales on St David's Day, but rarely on other occasions....
  • Zulu crown - Zulu
    Zulu

    The Zulu are the largest South African ethnic group of an estimated 10-11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....
     people, Southern Africa
    Southern Africa

    Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
    , see kufi
    Kufi

    A kufi or kufi cap is a brimless, short, rounded cap worn by people of African descent. Please refer to the taqiyah article for Muslim customs....
     for information