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The Welsh hat (Welsh: Het Gymreig) worn by women as part of Welsh national costume is a tall hat, similar to a top hat, or the capotain. It is still worn by Welsh folk-dance women, and schoolgirls, in Wales on St David's Day, but rarely on other occasions. Two main shapes of Welsh hat were made during the 19th century: those with drum shaped ...
Also known as a Gainsborough hat and garden hat, this is an elaborate women's design with a wide brim. Pilgrim's hat: A pilgrim's hat, cockel hat or traveller's hat is a wide brim hat used to keep off the sun. It is highly associated with pilgrims on the Way of St. James. The upturned brim of the hat is adorned with a scallop shell to denote ...
Old woman in sunbonnet (c. 1930). Photograph by Doris Ulmann. A bonnet decorated with lace and tulle from the 1880s. Bonnet has been used as the name for a wide variety of headgear for both sexes—more often female—from the Middle Ages to the present. As with "hat" and "cap", it is impossible to generalize as to the styles for which the word ...
With England and France mired in the Hundred Years War and its aftermath and then the English Wars of the Roses through most of the 15th century, European fashion north of the Alps was dominated by the glittering court of the Duchy of Burgundy, especially under the fashion-conscious power-broker Philip the Good (ruled 1419–1469).
Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. [1] A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter. Historically, milliners made and sold a range of accessories for clothing and hairstyles. [2] In France, milliners are known as marchand (e)s de modes (fashion merchants), rather than being ...
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.
A fedora made by Borsalino, with a pinch-front teardrop-shaped crown. A fedora made by Borsalino with a gutter-dent, side-dented crown, the front of the brim "snapped down" and the back "snapped up". A fedora (/ fəˈdɔːrə /) [1] is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown. [1][2] It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and ...
Cloche hat as worn by silent film star Vilma Bánky, 1927. The cloche hat or simply cloche (pronunciation ⓘ) is a fitted, bell -shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux. [ 1 ] They were especially popular from about 1922 to 1933. [ 2 ] Its name is derived from cloche, the French word for "bell".