List of headgear

Headgear is worn for many purposes, including protection against the elements, decoration, or for religious or cultural reasons, including social conventions. This is a list of headgear, both modern and historical.

Hats

Main article: List of hat styles

Worn in the past, or rarely worn today

Men's

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

Women's

Unclassified

Caps

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

Caps worn by women in the past

Caps worn on ceremonial occasions

Bonnets

Bonnets for women

  • 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

Helmets

Main article: Helmet § Helmet types

Hoods

Main article: Hood (headgear)
  • Bashlyk
  • 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
  • Bonnet head
  • Capirote, traditionally worn by the Nazarenos of a Spanish Brotherhood during solemn penitence
  • Chaperon (headgear) adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hood and hat
  • Flemish hood
  • French hood
  • Gable hood
  • Hood – modern or historical, attached to tops or shirts, overcoats, cloaks, etc.
  • Liripipe
  • Mary Queen of Scots
  • Medieval hood
  • Mourning hood
  • Riding hood
  • Stuart hood

Headbands, headscarves, wimples

Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face

Other headdress

Women's

Men's

Jeweled

Wigs

Headgear organised by function

Religious

Buddhist

Christian

Hindu

Jewish

  • 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.
  • Mitpaḥat is a scarf that is worn on the head or hair, by some married women. Some wear scarves only during prayers, and others wear them in public.
  • 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

Sikh

Military and police

Officials and civil workers

China (historical)

Vietnam (historical)

Other specialist headgear

National dress; association with a country, people and religion

By ethnicity

Chinese

Filipino

Japanese

Korean

Mongol

Vietnamese

See also

References

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  1. ^ Chico, Beverly (2013). Hats and Headwear around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO LLC. pp. 211–12. ISBN 9781610690621. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. ^ Lewandowski, Elizabeth J. (2011). The complete costume dictionary. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 243. ISBN 9780810840041.
  3. ^ The Concise Scots Dictionary. Aberdeen University Press. 1987. p. 296. ISBN 0-08-028492-2.
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