List of hats and headgear

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

Table of contents

1 Hats 1.1 Hats commonly worn today 1.2 Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today 1.2.1 Men's 1.2.2 Women's 1.2.3 Unclassified 2 Caps 2.3 Caps commonly worn today 2.4 Caps worn by men in the past 2.5 Caps worn by women (historical) 3 Bonnets 3.6 Bonnets for women 3.7 Bonnets for men 4 Helmets 5 Hoods 6 Headscarves, wimples 7 Masks, veils and headgear which covers the face 8 Other headdresses 8.8 Women 8.9 Men 9 Jeweled 10 Wigs 11 Headgear organised by function 11.10 Religious 11.11 Military and police 11.12 Officials and civil workers 11.13 Other specialist headgear 11.14 National dress; association with a country or people 12 See also

Hats

Hats commonly worn today

• Alpine hat
• beanie, also skully
• bucket hat
• fedora
• Panama, also jipijapa
• slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
• sombrero
• straw hat
• Stetson
• tuque

Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today

Men's

• beaver
• beefeater
• bicorne
• boater, also basher
• bowler hat, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat
• boxer a tall hat
• 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
• Caroline - 17th Century
• carriage hat - 1780s-1820s
• caubeen - Irish hat
• cavalier hat, also chevaliers, wide brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes
• chapeau-bras - 18th century, small three cornered hat which was carried under one arm
• chimney-pot hat, also lum-hat, Victorian, also worn by clerics in the Greek Orthodox Church
• pork pie hat

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

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 hat
• crush hat, also gibus-hat
• deerstalker, like that worn by Sherlock Holmes
• demicastor hat
• Derby, also kelly
• Directoire
• Dolly Varden
• fan-tail hat
• flat
• Gainsborough
• Garbo hat
• Garibaldi hat
• gipsy hat
• gossamer hat
• grebe hat
• halo-brim hat
• Homburg; a black Homburg was also known as an "Anthony Eden" or "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
• top hat
• toque
• tricorne, called a cocked hat in its day
• Trilby
• veiled hat, also bird cage hat

Caps

Caps commonly worn today

• baseball cap
• beret
• borsalino
• flat cap, also "cloth cap," "driver cap," "golf cap," or "windsor cap"
• Gatsby cap, also "newsboy cap" (also worn by women)
• kepi
• taqiyah, also tagiyah
• yarmulke, also skull cap, Jewish traditional

Caps worn by men in the past

• aviator's cap
• barretina
• capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
• Phrygian cap

Caps worn by women (historical)

• mob-cap
• turban

Bonnets

Bonnets for women

• cabriolet
• capote - soft crown, rigid brim, 19th century
• chip bonnet
• gipsy bonnet
• kiss-me-quick
• Leghorn bonnet
• mourning bonnet
• poke bonnet

• ugly - a kind of retractable visor that could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, 19th century

Bonnets for men

• glengarry bonnet
• tam o'shanter

Helmets

• balaclava helmet
• bicycle helmet
• Brodie helmet
• capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
• fire-hat
• football helmet
• hard hat
• helmet
• iron hat
• miner's helmet
• motorcycle helmet
• pickelhaube
• riding helmet
• space helmet

Hoods

• bonnet headdress
• calash
• capulet
• Flemish hood
• French hood
• gable hood
• hood - modern or historical, attached to tops or shirts, overcoats, cloaks, etc
• Ku Klux Klan hood
• Mary Queen of Scots
• medieval hood
• mourning hood
• riding hood
• Stuart hood

• bongrace - is 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

Headscarves, wimples

• abaya
• buknuk
• chador
• coif
• dupatta, also shayla or milfeh
• khimar
• headscarf, also khimar, hijab, ohrni
• veil
• wimple

Masks, veils and headgear which covers the face

• Afghan burka, also full burka, burqa, burqua
• balaclava (helmet) or skimask
• boushiya
• burka, also burqa, burga, burqua
• gas mask
• mask
• loo mask
• niqab
• veil
• wedding veil

Other headdresses

Women

• 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

Men

• Arab headdress
  • a white cap or skullcap: taqiyah, 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

Jeweled

• coronet
• crown
  • Imperial Crown of India
  • Imperial State Crown
  • St Edward's Crown
• tiara
• Papal Tiara

Wigs

• toupee
• wig

Headgear organised by function

Religious

• biretta
• bowler hat (Orange Order)
• galero (cardinal's hat)
• coif
• fez
• Geneva hat
• Greek miter, also Greek mitre
• mitre, also miter, (bishop's tall pointed cap)
• Papal Tiara, also triregnum
• turban
• veil
• wimple a nun's headdress which covers her hair, sides of her face and throat, worn by other women in earlier centuries
• yarmulke - Jewish skullcap; also Kippah, koppel, capel, coppel
• zucchetto - Catholic skullcap; also pileolus, berettino, calotte, subbiretum, submitrale, soli-deo

Military and police

• barretina
• beefeater
• bearskin hat
• beret
• bersagliere
• Bone dome - closely fitting solid helmet designed to resist impacts within the cockpit of military aircraft
• Caubeen
• feather bonnet
• gas mask
• glengarry bonnet
• helmet
• kepi
• lemon squeezer
• shako
• Combination Cap

Officials and civil workers

• Manchu official headwear
• Ming official headwear

Other specialist headgear

• chef's hat, also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
• coronet
• crown
• fire-hat
• gas mask
• mortarboard
• night cap
• nurse's cap
• space helmet
• swimming cap
• visor
• wedding veil

National dress; association with a country or people

• bearskin hat
• beret - French
• bowler hat - English
• Breton, also Bretonne
• coolie hat
• coonskin hat - American frontiersman
• Cossack hat - Cossacks
• fez
• feathered headdress
• Four Winds hat
• glengarry bonnet
• Haida hat
• mandarin hat
• Phrygian cap
• qeleshe - Albanian
• šajkača; - Serbian
• sombrero - Mexican
• slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
• stetson - American
• turban
• tuque
• ushanka - Russian
• Welsh hat

See also

• List of types of clothing