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Pith helmet – for use in tropical regions; the American fiber helmet is a version of it; Pork pie hat; Shovel hat; Sidara – national Iraqi headgear; Shtreimel; Sombrero; Spodik; Keffiyah or sudra; Papal tiara – a hat traditionally worn by the Pope, which has been abandoned in recent decades, in favor of the mitre
In 1847, the Household Cavalry, along with British dragoons and Dragoon Guards, adopted a helmet which was a hybrid between the Pickelhaube and the traditional dragoon helmet which it replaced. This "Albert Pattern" helmet was named after Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who took a keen interest in military uniforms, and featured a ...
A rounded rigid helmet with a small brim predominantly used in workplace environments, such as construction sites, to protect the head from injury by falling objects, debris and bad weather. Hardee hat: Also known as the 1858 Dress Hat. Regulation hat for Union soldiers during the American Civil War. Hennin: A woman's hat of the Middle Ages. [36]
The pith helmet, also known as the safari helmet, salacot, [a] sola topee, sun helmet, topee, and topi [b] is a lightweight cloth-covered helmet made of sholapith. [1] The pith helmet originates from the Spanish military adaptation of the native salakot headgear of the Philippines .
It probably evolved from the nasal helmet, which had been produced in a flat-topped variant with a square profile by about 1180. [3] The enclosed helmet was created by adding a face-protecting plate, pierced for sight and breathing, and by extending downwards the back and sides of a flat-topped helmet, to produce a cylindrical helm. [4]
The word for the cap in antiquity was pil(l)eus or pilos, indicating a kind of felt. [10] Greek πῖλος pilos, Latin pellis, Albanian plis, as well as Old High German filiz and Proto-Slavic *pьlstь are considered to come from a common Proto-Indo-European root meaning "felt".
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The construction of the helmet is complex. [2] Apart from the neck guard the basic form is shared by the contemporaneous Pioneer Helmet, a sparsely decorated fighting piece, [3] [4] and consists of four parts: an iron skull cap with brass edging and decorations, two iron cheek guards with brass edging, and camail protecting the neck.