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A woman's hat with round crown and deep brim turned upwards all the way round. Said to be based on hats worn by Breton agricultural workers. [20] Bucket hat: A soft cotton hat with a wide, downwards-sloping brim. Budenovka: A soft, woolen hat covering the ears and neck, worn by Soviet troops from 1918 to 1940. [21] Busby: A small fur military ...
Category. : Italian-American culture in Ohio. Italy portal. United States portal. This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Italian Americans in Ohio .
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 ...
Coppola caps. The coppola (Italian pronunciation:) is a traditional kind of flat cap typically worn in Sicily, Campania and Calabria, where is it known as còppula or berretto, and also seen in Malta, Greece (where it is known as tragiáska, Greek: τραγιάσκα), some territories in Turkey, Corsica, and Sardinia (where it came to be known, in the local language, as berritta, cicía, and ...
Large semicircular head covering framing the face; alternatively, a brimless hat or cap. 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.
The men's long, narrow coats are trimmed with gold braid. c.1730–1740. Fashion in the period 1700–1750 in European and European-influenced countries is characterized by a widening silhouette for both men and women following the tall, narrow look of the 1680s and 90s. This era is defined as late Baroque/Rococo style.
An important part of Italian American identity, the Italian language has been widely spoken in the United States of America for more than one hundred years, due to large-scale immigration beginning in the late 19th century. Since the 1980s, however, it has seen a steady decline in the number of speakers, as earlier generations of Italian ...
Capotain. A capotain, capatain, copotain, or steeple hat is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical "sugarloaf" hat, usually black, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe. Earlier capotains had rounded crowns; later, the crown was flat at the top.