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Eyeshades. Green eyeshades or dealer's visors are a type of visor that were worn most often from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century by accountants, telegraphers, copy editors, and others engaged in vision-intensive, detail-oriented occupations to lessen eye strain [1] due to early incandescent lights and candles, which tended to be harsh (the classic banker's lamp had a green shade ...
While this is widely understood to make it more difficult for the dealer to cheat by concealing a card in his sleeve, the sleeve garter is usually accompanied by a vest and bow tie (and sometimes a visor) suggesting that this usage, might hark back to late 19th and early 20th centuries fashion at least as much as it serves a real purpose.
The newsboy cap, newsie cap, jeff cap, [1] or baker boy hat (British) is a casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. It has a similar overall shape and stiff peak ( visor ) in front as a flat cap , but the body of the cap is rounder, made of eight pieces, fuller, and paneled with a button on top, and often with a button attaching the ...
A tall cylindrical military cap, usually with a visor, badge, and plume. Shovel hat: A hat with low, round crown and a wide brim, which projected in a shovel-like curve at the front and rear and was often worn turned up at the sides. Formerly associated with the Anglican clergy. Shtreimel: A fur hat worn by married Hassidic men on Shabbat and ...
In 1876, a new model appeared with a rounded visor, as the squared visor drooped when wet and curled when drying. The model used in World War I was the 1886 pattern, which was a fuller shape incorporating air vents. Described as an "ideal headdress - which was cheap, distinctive and easy to produce", the M1886 kepi's only significant drawback ...
Hockey helmets have visors, shields, cages and masks to protect the eyes and face from impact. Hurling helmets protect the eyes from the ball and from near contact with other players. Lacrosse helmets used in men's lacrosse have a cage to protect the face and eyes from impact. Lifeboatman's helmet has a transparent visor to keep sea spray out ...
A visor (also spelled vizor) is a surface that protects the eyes, such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects. Nowadays many visors are transparent, but before strong transparent substances such as polycarbonate were invented, visors were opaque like a mask .
Dutch Admiral Helfrich with British Air Marshal Brooke-Popham both wearing peaked caps with embellishments. Scrambled eggs (American English) or scrambled egg (British English) is a slang term for the typically leaf-shaped embellishments found on the visors of peaked caps worn by military officers and (by metonymy) for the senior officers who wear them.