A skullcap made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. On May 5, 1812, a London hatter, Thomas Francis Dollman, patented a design for "an elastic round hat" supported by ribs and springs. His patent was described as: Distinctive hat worn by farmers in the Bangladesh and Eastern India made of bamboo with a conical top. masonic-lodge-of-education.com". masonic-lodge-of-education.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29 . Retrieved 2012-06-06.

The original version of these hats used starch to stiffen them and keep them taut. This style of toque is no longer worn in professional kitchens, mainly due to hygiene and heat issues, but maybe seen in old pictures. It has now been replaced by paper versions in the same shape and style.A characteristic field cap worn by partisans in World War II guerrilla fights as well by the officers of Polish armies. A woman's hat resembling an upturned fruit basket. Usually lavishly trimmed, it achieved notoriety in the early 1900s. A conical hat, usually tall and narrow, worn by late-19th and early-20th century school pupils as a punishment and/or humiliation. It often featured a large capital "D" inscribed on its side, to be shown frontwards when the hat was worn. A lightweight all-weather hat, with a high rounded crown and wide flat brim, designed by John B. Stetson for the demands of the American frontier.

Those that do choose to wear hats and head coverings are normally pretty strict about wearing them and it very much becomes part of the uniform, which is also more along the lines of the traditional look. While few still wear the traditional cloth hat, due to issues related to air circulation and cleaning, many chefs wear paper versions, nontraditional hats (like baseball caps), or even no hat at all. A military style cap with a flat sloping crown, band and peak (also called a visor). It is used by many militaries of the world as well as law enforcement, as well as some people in service professions who wear uniforms. a b " "Gibus" Opera Hat". McCord Museum. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03 . Retrieved 2013-07-06.

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The light bakers cap is generally made of cotton and is peaked. Worn in the same way as a baseball cap, it is lighter and generally come in one size. It is common to see top hats in stiff wool felt and even soft wool though these are not considered on the same level as the silk or fur plush or grey felt varieties. The standard crown shape nowadays is the 'semi-bell crown'; 'full bell crowns' and 'stovepipe' shaped toppers are rarer. A brimless cap, with or without a small visor, once popular among schoolboys. Sometimes includes a propeller. This distinctive choice of headwear is typically paired with a shawl worn around the shoulders, and a Pais a Betgwn - a puffy, petticoat-like skirt (in Welsh, the pais), and a gown (also known as a bedgown - or Betgwn - spelt in multiple ways in Welsh, but this is the most common current spelling). The gown can vary in style from long and fitted to short and loose, but always opens at the front.

The top hat is also known as a beaver hat or silk hat, in reference to its material, as well as casually as chimney pot hat or stove pipe hat. Chef’s toques are traditionally white, tall and pleated, sometimes made of cloth, which needs to be starched to make it stand tall and more likely these days made of paper. A hat with low, round crown and a wide brim, which projected in a shovel-like curve at the front and rear and was often worn turned up at the sides. Formerly associated with the Anglican clergy.A cap widely worn in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand, mostly among Muslim males. May be related to the taqiyah. A soft brimmed hat popular in New York after the turn of the century made from eight quarter panels. Also known as a newsboy cap. A small hat commonly made with feathers, flowers and/or beads. [5] It attaches to the hair by a comb, headband or clip.

Wherever there is a story about when something was conceived or invented, there is always a story to counteract the original and if you search long enough you will find a story which dates long before French chefs are said to have adopted the wearing of tall hats. Two main shapes of Welsh hat were made during the 19th century: those with drum shaped (vertical sided) crowns were worn in north-west Wales, and those with slightly tapering crowns were found in the rest of Wales. James Laver once observed that an assemblage of "toppers" resembled factory chimneys and thus added to the mood of the industrial era. In England, post- Brummel dandies went in for flared crowns and swooping brims. Their counterparts in France, known as the " Incroyables", wore top hats of such outlandish dimensions that there was no room for them in overcrowded cloakrooms until the invention of the collapsible top hat. [10] [11] 20th century [ edit ] Illustration of a silk top hat in a 1915 U.S. advertisement.The most distinctive feature of most Welsh costume is that it was made of local wool, rather than cotton,' he adds. A flat-brimmed and flat-topped straw hat formerly worn by seamen. Schools, especially public schools in the UK, might include a boater as part of their (summer) uniform. Now mostly worn at summer regattas or formal garden parties, often with a ribbon in club, college or school colors. 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. History [ edit ] Sydney Curnow Vosper's 1908 watercolour Salem is one of the most iconic images of Wales. It depicts four women all wearing the same hat.