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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 ...
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisel's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse. Geisel, who was a collector of hats, got the idea for the story when he was ...
Bonnet (headgear) 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 ...
ISBN. 978-0064431439. OCLC. 13008528. Website. capsforsale.org. Caps for Sale is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W. R. Scott in 1940. [1]
A conical plant fiber hat covered in leather both at the brim and top, worn by men of the Fulani people in West Africa. Golden hat: This type of hat is a very specific and rare type of archaeological artifact from Bronze Age Europe. Hennin: Most commonly worn in Burgundy and France by women of the nobility, the hennin appears from about 1430 ...
Hennin. A conical hennin with black velvet lappets (brim) and a sheer veil, 1485–90. The hennin (French: hennin / ˈhɛnɪn /; [1] possibly from Flemish Dutch: henninck meaning cock or rooster) [N 1] was a headdress in the shape of a cone, steeple, or truncated cone worn in the Late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. [2]
Bollman Hat Company was founded by Mr. George Bollman in 1868. Bollman was a family owned business for most of its history. Bollman became an employee owned business in 1985. The company is headquartered in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, with wool scouring facilities in Texas and showrooms and sales and design offices in New York City and Sydney ...
Other early hats include the Pileus, a simple skull-like cap; the Phrygian cap, worn by freed slaves in Greece and Rome (which became iconic in America during the Revolutionary War and the French Revolution, as a symbol of the struggle for liberty against the Monarchy); and the Greek petasos, the first known hat with a brim. Women wore veils ...