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Turbans are headgear, mostly for males, made up from a single piece of cloth which is wrapped around the head in a wide variety of styles. Turban is the best known word in English for a large category of headgear and general head wraps traditionally worn in many parts of the world. All over the world Sikhs wear a turban as religious 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. Hermes wearing a hat. Ancient Greek Attic black-figure olpe, 550–530 BC. Louvre Museum, Paris.
Headgear, usually made from fabric such as cotton and/or polyester, that covers the whole head, exposing only the face or part of it. Sometimes only the eyes or eyes and mouth are visible. Also known as a ski mask. [4] Balmoral bonnet: Traditional Scottish bonnet or cap worn with Scottish Highland dress. [5] Barretina
Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on the skull and/or other parts of the head, either for practical reasons such as physical protection or for ornamental, ceremonial or symbolic purposes.
The headgear came as a part of Western influence in Yogyakarta during the reign of Sultan Hamengkubuwana IV. The uniform of a Field marshal of the Imperial Ethiopian Army, which was used during the early 20th century by Emperor Haile Selassie, had a Bicorne which was specially adorned with a golden lion's mane. [5]
The snood scarf appeared, and got its name through redefining a term used for the women's headgear, in the 21st century.While clearly a scarf, it broke out of the standard classification of scarves that was based on a shape of the cloth (triangular, rectangular, etc.) as the snood scarf has no ends.
The Meyrick Helmet is a Celtic: Brythonic helmet that is likely to have originated from Northern England in the 1st century AD. The flat plane extending from the rim is intended to protect the back of the neck, however some theorise it may have been turned in reverse to shield the eyes from sunlight whilst in battle German M43-style field cap of the "Bundesgrenzschutz" (BGS) (now called ...
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.