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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.
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A hat made from an umbrella that straps to the head. Has been made with mosquito netting. Upe: A Bougainvillean headdress made from tightly wound straw. Ushanka: A Russian fur hat with fold-down ear-flaps. Utility cover: An eight-pointed hat used by the US military branches within the United States Department of the Navy. Vueltiao
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
The article stated that, at that time, bearskin hats cost £7–5s each (about 35 contemporary US dollars; [43] £600 in 2007 pounds) [44] and noted "it can readily be seen what a price has to be paid for keeping up a custom which is rather old, it is true, but is practically a useless one save for the purpose of military display."
The colback, or busby, is a fur headpiece of Turkish origin. It was worn by officers and elite companies of hussars and chasseurs in the French army during the French Directory and the First French Empire , under Napoleon I . [ 1 ]
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Pelisse finally lost any resemblance to their origins in men's military dress as skirts and sleeves widened in the 1830s, and the increasingly large crinoline skirts of the 1840s and 1850s caused fashionable women to turn to loose mantles, cloaks, and shawls (especially those of Paisley design) instead. The term pelisse did however continue to ...