Fabrics & Gear

 

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    • Leather flight helmet

       

    • Beanie or skully and or visor beanie.

       

    • Boater (also basher, skimmer, cady, katie, somer, or sennit hat)

       

    • Bucket hat also fishing hat, ratting hat (UK) or Dixie Cup hat (US)

     

    • Busby, confused with Bearskin [this is not a British hussar 'busby' but a German kolpak]

                                 

    • 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."

           

    • knit cap, also knit hat, stocking cap, toboggan, toque, watch or ski cap

 

    • Kippah, also kippa, yarmulke, or skullcap

   

    • Kufi, including the "Zulu crown".

                                         

    • Tam, or Tam o'Shanter

                   

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

 
Shapes and styles of beaver hats 1776–1825

 

Men's[edit]

 

Ancient coins showing possible Persian tiara on Autophradates and Phrygian cap on Orontes I

 

Women's[edit]

 

 

Unclassified[edit]

 
The traditional bonnet of the Kilwinning Archers of Scotland.

 

Caps[edit]

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

Caps worn by women in the past[edit]

Caps worn on ceremonial occasions[edit]

Bonnets[edit]

Bonnets for women[edit]

 
Old woman in sunbonnet (c. 1930). Photograph by Doris Ulmann

 

  • Cabriolet
  • Capote – soft crown, rigid brim, nineteenth 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 – nineteenth Century
  • Kiss-me-quick
  • Leghorn bonnet
  • Mourning bonnet
  • Poke bonnet – Early nineteenth 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, nineteenth century

Bonnets for men[edit]

Helmets[edit]

See Types of helmet

Hoods[edit]

 
Capirote during procession, exist in various colours

 

Headbands, headscarves, wimples[edit]

 
An Iraqi girl wearing a headscarf in downtown Baghdad (April 2005).

 

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

Oladipo jumping up for a shot

 
Victor Oladipo wearing some protective headgear

 

 
Orthodontic facemask being prepared for fitting to this adolescent female patient - 16 hours daily wear

 

Other headdress[edit]

Women's[edit]

Men's[edit]

  • 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
  • Do-rag
  • Stocking cap
  • Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
  • Upe
  • Visor

Jeweled[edit]

 
Ming Dynasty queen's headdress with cloisonné, pearls, gems, and gold

 

Wigs[edit]

Headgear organised by function[edit]

Religious[edit]

Buddhist[edit]

Christian[edit]

Hindu[edit]

Rajput (Jodhpur) (8411728143).jpg

 

 

Jewish[edit]

  • Havalim (חֲבָליִם) ropes that are referenced in Kings I 20:31. Used as a sign of mourning.
  • Kashket
  • Kippah or yarmulke
  • Kolpik
  • 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
  • Shtreimel
  • Spodik
  • Gargush
  • Sudra (סודרא) is a headdress, similar to the keffiyah worn by Jewish men in the ancient near-east.

Muslim[edit]

Sikh[edit]

Military and police[edit]

Officials and civil workers[edit]

China (historical)[edit]

Other specialist headgear[edit]

National dress; association with a country, people and religion[edit]

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

 

 
A young Albanian wearing Qeleshe (also called Plis).

 

 
Ti'i langga, a Rote islander attempt to copy the 16th-century European headgear.

 

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