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Bonnet (headgear) 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. As with "hat" and "cap", it is impossible to generalize as to the styles ...
Caul. A caul is a piece of membrane that can cover a newborn 's head and face. [1] Birth with a caul is rare, occurring in less than 1 in 80,000 births. [2] The caul is harmless and is immediately removed by the attending parent, physician, or midwife upon birth of the child. [citation needed] An en-caul birth is different from a caul birth in ...
Traditional Scottish bonnet or cap worn with Scottish Highland dress. Barretina. A floppy fabric pull-on hat, usually worn with its top flopped down. In red, it is now used as a symbol of Catalan identity. Baseball cap. A type of soft, light cotton cap with a rounded crown and a stiff, frontward-projecting bill.
A snood (/ snuːd /) is a type of traditionally female headgear designed to hold the hair in a cloth or yarn bag. [1] In the most common form, the headgear resembles a close-fitting hood worn over the back of the head. It is similar to a hairnet, [1] but snoods typically have a looser fit, [2] a much coarser mesh, and noticeably thicker yarn.
Among a few well-known historic examples are the Scottish soldiers, who wore the blue bonnet in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Volontaires Cantabres, a French force raised in the Basque country in the 1740s to the 1760s, who also wore a blue beret, and the Carlist rebels, with their red berets, in 1830s Spain.
In Western Pennsylvania English (Pittsburghese), it is known as a tossle cap. It may also simply be called a winter hat. Other names for knitted caps include woolly hat (British English) or wool hat (American English); bobble hat, sock hat, knit hat, poof ball hat, bonnet, sock cap, stocking cap, skullcap, ski hat, sugan, or chook.
A poke bonnet (sometimes also referred to as a Neapolitan bonnet or simply as a poke) is a women's bonnet, featuring a small crown and wide and rounded front brim. Typically this extends beyond the face. It has been suggested that the name came about because the bonnet was designed in such a way that the wearer's hair could be contained within ...
The blue bonnet was a type of soft woollen hat that for several hundred years was the customary working wear of Scottish labourers and farmers. Although a particularly broad and flat form was associated with the Scottish Lowlands, where it was sometimes called the scone cap, [1] the bonnet was also worn in parts of Northern England and became ...