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Chaperon is a diminutive of chape, which derives, like the English cap, cape and cope, from the Late Latin cappa, which already could mean cap, cape or hood ().. The tail of the hood, often quite long, was called the tippit [2] or liripipe in English, and liripipe or cornette in French.
Felt hats of various styles—tall-crowned with small brims or no brims at all, hats with brims turned up on one side for variations of the coif, [43] or low-crowned with wider brims pulled to a point in front—began to compete with the draped chaperon, especially in Italy [39] and after the 1460s in France/Flanders. A brimless scarlet cap ...
Chapeau-bras, also chapeau-de-bras – 18th- to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm; Chaperon – a series of hats that evolved in 14th- and 15th-century Europe from the medieval hood of the same name; Cocked hat; Colback – a fur headpiece of Turkish origin
Man wearing a chaperon, Italy, late 14th century. During this century, the chaperon made a transformation from being a utilitarian hood with a small cape to becoming a complicated and fashionable hat worn by the wealthy in town settings. This came when they began to be worn with the opening for the face placed instead on the top of the head.
The chaperon in the form of hood and attached shoulder-length cape was worn during this period, especially by the rural lower classes, and the fitted linen coif tied under the chin appeared very late in the century. Small round or slightly conical caps with rolled brims were worn, and straw hats were worn for outdoor work in summer. [2] [5]
A bycocket or bycoket is a style of hat that was fashionable for both men and women in Western Europe from the 13th to the 16th century. [1] [2] It has a wide brim that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front like a bird's beak. [3] In French, it is called a chapeau à bec due to this resemblance. [1]
[2]: 138 [7]: 15 [8]: 173–174 A law in Breslau (Wrocław) in 1267 said that since Jews had stopped wearing the pointed hats they used to wear, this would be made compulsory. [8]: 174 The Yellow badge also dates from this century, although the hat seems to have been much more widely worn.
Later on, capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. They have had periodic returns to fashion – for example, in nineteenth-century Europe. Catholic clergy wear a type of cape known as a ferraiolo, which is worn for formal events outside a ritualistic context.