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Sun hat: A hat which shades the face and shoulders from the sun. Tam o' Shanter: A Scottish wool hat originally worn by men. Taqiyah: A round fabric cap worn by Muslim men. Tengkolok: A traditional Malay, Indonesian and Bruneian male headwear. It is made from long songket cloth folded and tied in particular style (solek). Top hat
Indian saree made from chiffon fabric, inspired by the evening dresses of Hollywood starlets. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, a second influence vied with Paris couturiers as a wellspring for ideas: the American cinema. [7] As Hollywood movies gained their popularities, general public idolized movie stars as their role models.
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 face mask hangs from the head piece by a central hinge, and would be fastened with straps connecting a loop under each ear with corresponding holes in the neck guard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The entire helmet, the iron core of which is between 1 and 6 millimetres thick, [ 4 ] weighs 2.217 kg (4.89 lb), of which the face mask comprises 982 g (2.16 ...
A veil is a piece of sheer fabric that covers all or part of the face. For centuries women covered their hair, neck, ears, chin, and parts of the face with fabric. Each culture created elaborate head wraps for women and men using a shawl, headscarf, kerchief or veil. Very elaborate veiling practices are common in Islam, Africa and Eastern Europe.
A classic brown felt men's pork pie hat from the 1940s. The bow in the back of the hat conceals a small button on a string which winds around the hat: in windy weather the button would be attached to the lapel of a jacket to keep the hat from blowing away. A pork pie hat is one of several different styles of hat that have been worn since the ...
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.
Winston Churchill wearing a homburg hat Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt wearing homburg hats. A homburg is a semi-formal hat of fur felt, characterized by a single dent running down the centre of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a wide silk grosgrain hatband ribbon, a flat brim shaped in a "pencil curl", and a ribbon-bound trim about the edge of the brim.