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The Pickelhaube (German: [ˈpɪkl̩ˌhaʊ̯bə] ⓘ; pl. Pickelhauben, pronounced [ˈpɪkl̩ˌhaʊ̯bn̩] ⓘ; from German: Pickel, lit. 'point' or 'pickaxe', and Haube , lit. ' bonnet ' , a general word for "headgear"), also Pickelhelm , is a spiked leather or metal helmet that was worn in the 19th and 20th centuries by Prussian and German ...
A woman fastening a red-and-white cockade to a Polish insurgent's square-shaped rogatywka cap during the January Uprising of 1863–64. A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap.
The Swedish shako was made of black felt with a leather visor and crown. The shako was equipped with a banderole, brass badge with the regiment's coat of arms, cockade and a pompon as a company sign. The officers’ shako was also equipped with a yellow plume. In 1831 the m/1815 shako was replaced by a new model, the m/1831. This shako was ...
A Parisian Cockade fan of silk and ivory, 1800-1850. A cockade fan opens into a complete circle around the pivot. Their style can be either pleated or brisé. They were not very practical and considered too flamboyant, and thus they saw little popularity. [2]
Cockade of Uruguay; This page was last edited on 5 July 2020, at 11:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
A sea of boaters in New York's Times Square, July 1921. Being made of straw, the boater was and is generally regarded as a warm-weather hat. In the days when all men in Western Europe and the US wore hats when out of doors, "Straw Hat Day", the day when men switched from wearing their winter hats to their summer hats, was seen as a sign of the beginning of summer.
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A busby from the 19th century with a plume and red bag. Cap lines attach the cap to the jacket to prevent loss. Busby is the English name for the Hungarian prémes csákó ('fur shako') or kucsma, a military head-dress made of fur, originally worn by Hungarian hussars.