Hat DictionaryP

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*padre:		low crown and broad straight brim with slight cure a outer edge. adapted from hats of priests. Parson's hat
*pakul:		felted wool cap from Afghanistan, flat top rolled brim
*palla:		Medieval European head drapery evolved from headrail
*panama hat:		straw hat made with panama cloche
*pandita:
*pastorella:		Italian, shepherdess, women's hat ,round crown, wide, drooping brim, usually of straw
*pedaline:		straw hat
*petasos:		a hat of ancient Greece with wide brim and conical crown
*Phrygian cap:		conical cap with the top bent forward. also known as the cap of liberty.
*picture hat:		a hat with a very wide brim, worn tilted to the side of the head
*pileus:		roman close fitting cap of felt similar to skullcap
*pillbox:		a small brimless cap with a flat tip and cylindrical side
*pinner:
*pith helmet:		a helmet of cork or pith (dried spongy tissue from the soda plant) covered with cloth
*planter's hat:		worn by sugar planter of Jamaica. Later worn by golfer Snead
*plug:		top hat
*poke bonnet:		19th century bonnet, very deep brim and small crown
*porkpie:		19th cent. round flat topped crown, small brim turned up all around
*postillian:		17th century Rembrandt style hat of great painters later post riders
*Puritan:		black felt hat, high conical crown, narrow straight brim, worn by the Puritans during the 17th century.Usually trimmed with buckle at the front
*puggaree:		from Pagri, East Indian turban worn as protection against the sun.
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*quake hats:		17th century high quality broad brimmed felt hats, gray or brown
*Quaker bonnet:		18th century worn by Quaker women
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*Ramillies cock:		18th century man's hat named after battle, back turned up higher than the front.
*ranelagh mob:		18th century, form of mob cap worn by market women ratters: straw hats
*rastafarian hat:		called a crown, religious significance can be knitted red,yellow and green which represents the Ethiopian flag.
*reticulated headdress:		14th and 15th century braided coils of hair worn over ear ear, covered with cauls, or nets of gold or silver
*Ricinium:		square veil worn by Roman women on their heads.
*robin hood:		12th century English hero and outlaw Robin Hood portrayed wearing a conical hood with self brim that was turned up at the back and worn down to a point in the front and trimmed with a quill
*rough rider:		Khaki felt soldier hat of Spanish American War of 1898-1899, crown was creased and brim was cocked on one side. Named after Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's troop of rough riders
*roundlet:		14th 15th century stuffed roll of velvet worn turban fashion over close fitting cap
*Reubens or Rembrandt hat:		Large felt hat decorated with feather made fashionable from portraits of that period. Dutch costume
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*sa shu:		sakya hat, sakya crown, red pandita hat with lappets folded upwards and over the crown of the hat
*sailor:		boater
*Saxon veil:
*sennit:		see boater
*Severian Temple rings:
*shadow:		16th/17th century woman's hood wired and extended above head level, used for protection from sun as a shadow
*shako:		a cylindrical, flat-topped cap with small brim; military head-cover
*Sherlock Holmes:		deerstalker
*shovel hat:		worn by Roman Catholic Priests in outdoor dress, low round crown and turned up on the brim sides with make the front and back project like a shovel
*skimmer:		boater
*skull-cap:		small, close fitting cap of fabric, knit or crochet;
*slouch hats:		a soft hat with a high crown and drooping flexible brim; also called a Garbo hat,
*smoking cap:		men's pillbox shape,19th century to prevent the hair from smelling of tobacco
*snap brim:		brim turns down in front and up in back, made of felt, straw, tilted
*snood:		Scottish term for fillet worn to confine hair; loose net for woman's back hair netting, netting which covered the headgear. In the fifteenth century it was decorated with pearls and jewels and worn directly on the hair.
*sombrero:		Mexican hat with high, conical crown and very wide brim, usually of straw or felt
*sou'western:		waterproof hat of oiled canvas, later rubberized, now plastic coated. worn by sailors as protection against the weather, the brim is broader in back to protect the neck
*spagnola:		Italian term for a crowns indented crease around the top
*statute cap:		a statute, passed in England in 1571 to encourage the wool workers, made wearing this cap compulsory for the common man.
*stocking cap:		knitted cap, usually conical, often finished with a pompon
*stovepipe hat:		a tall 19th century top hat, made popular by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
*stuff hat:		19th century term for felt hats made principally of fur
*sugarloaf:		14th 15th century, tall hat with curved crown that resembled the loaf that sugar was formed into for shipping
*sunbonnet:		large stiff brim and flap at the back for neck protection