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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.
His bag-shaped hat has a rolled brim and is decorated with a jewel. Early 15th century. Young man wears a draped chaperon and a dark robe over a reddish doublet. Note the characteristic high front neckline compared to the back neckline, Florence, 1425. A chaperon worn in elaborate twists, 1433.
Man wearing a chaperon, Italy, late 14th century. During this century, the chaperon made a transformation from being a utilitarian hood with a small cape to becoming a complicated and fashionable hat worn by the wealthy in town settings. This came when they began to be worn with the opening for the face placed instead on the top of the head.
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
In central Albania (Tirana, Durrës, Kavaja) it is cone-shaped, and in North Albania and Kosovo round. Albanian hat (French: Chapeau albanois) [3] worn typically during the 15th to 18th centuries [4] and immortalized in Onufri's paintings. Qylafë [ˈcylaf]: a woolen high hat worn in southern Albania. [5]
Later on, capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. They have had periodic returns to fashion – for example, in nineteenth-century Europe. Catholic clergy wear a type of cape known as a ferraiolo , which is worn for formal events outside a ritualistic context.
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 ...
Portrait of a Young Man (Tymotheos) by Jan van Eyck, 1432.The liripipe is draped forward at left (subject's right). A liripipe (/ ˈ l ɪ r ɪ ˌ p aɪ p /) [note 1] is an element of clothing, the tail of a hood or cloak, or a long-tailed hood.