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A fedora (/ f ə ˈ d ɔːr ə /) [1] is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides. [ 3 ] Fedoras can also be creased with teardrop crowns, diamond crowns, center dents, and others, and the positioning of pinches can vary.
George Lindsey as Goober Pyle wearing a typical whoopee cap.. A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid-20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up.
A Colombian hat of woven and sewn black and khaki dried palm braids with indigenous figures. Whoopee cap: A skullcap made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. Wideawake: A broad brimmed felt "countryman's hat" with a low crown. Widow's cap: A cap worn by women after the death of their husbands.
All of the hats that were produced at the factory were sold by Stewart from his store in York Street in Sydney as well as distributing it to other retailers in the city. On 7 August 1912 Stewart, who, as well as being a shareholder in the company and its chairman, was the distributor and sales agent for the company, registered the name Akubra ...
Bowler, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby; Busby; Bycocket – a hat with a wide brim that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front; Cabbage-tree hat – a hat woven from leaves of the cabbage tree; Capotain (and women) – a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black – also, copotain, copatain; Caubeen – Irish hat
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A tin foil hat is a hat made from one or more sheets of tin foil or aluminium foil, or a piece of conventional headgear lined with foil, often worn in the belief or hope that it shields the brain from threats such as electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading.
The origin of the term mobcap is a compound of mob "dishabille, casually dressed" + cap.It may be modeled on Dutch mop (muts) "woman's cap". [1]From at least 1730 to at least 1750, a single mob cap could be referred to as "a suit of mobs" [2] or 'a suit of mobbs', [3] while the plural mob caps could be described as 'suits of mobs' [4] or 'suits of mobbs'.