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[1] [4] [2] Crowns are worn more often by older women within the congregation. It is common for women who do wear crowns to own hats for many occasions; journalist Craig Mayberry noted that the fifty crown-wearing women he interviewed owned an average of fifty-four hats each. [5] Church crown culture involves an unspoken code of etiquette.
Several Egyptian gods, such as Nekhbet and Horus, are seen in some drawings and carvings wearing the Hedjet. Images of this crown have been found in Ta-Seti (Northern Nubia in 3500–3200 BCE), [citation needed] a tomb in Deir-el-Bahari, the Narmer Palette, and on a statue of Pharaoh Sesostris I. [citation needed]
A pussyhat is a pink, crafted brimless hat or cap, created in large numbers by women involved with the United States 2017 Women's March. They are the result of the Pussyhat Project, a nationwide effort initiated by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman, a screenwriter and architect located in Los Angeles, to create pink hats to be worn at the march. [1]
A painting of cornette-wearing Sisters of Charity by Armand Gautier (19th-century) Polish nun wearing a white cornette and habit in 1939 A cornette is a piece of female headwear. It is essentially a type of wimple consisting of a large starched piece of white cloth that is folded upward in such a way as to create the resemblance of horns ...
The tricorne or tricorn is a style of hat in a triangular shape, which became popular in Europe during the 18th century, falling out of style by the early 1800s. The word "tricorne" was not widely used until the mid-19th century.
Most of the surviving (three-crown) papal tiaras have the shape of a circular beehive, with its central core made of silver. Some were sharply conical, others bulbous. Except for that of Pope Paul VI, all were heavily bejewelled. The three crowns are marked by golden decorations, sometimes in the form of crosses, sometimes in the shape of leaves.
[2]: 16 The guan was typically a formal form of headwear which was worn together with its corresponding court dress attire. [3] There were sumptuary laws which regulated the wearing of guan; however, these laws were not fixed; and thus, they would differ from dynasty to dynasty. [4] There were various forms and types of guan. [2]: 16
Shown above is a detail of an illumination on parchment showing Queen Isabeau of Bavaria wearing a heart-shaped escoffion. The headpiece was worn mostly by women of the court, or those of a higher class. The conventions surrounding who was able to wear the escoffion is covered in the Medieval clothing laws and headwear section below.