List of headgear

Hats

Worn in the past, or rarely worn today

Men's

• American fiber helmet - for use in tropical regions; similar to pith helmet
• Anthony Eden hat
• Beaver hat
• Beefeaters' hat
• Bicorne
• Boater, also basher, skimmer
• Boss of the plains
• Bowler, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby
• 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 – a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black – also, copotain, copatain
• Caubeen – Irish hat
• Cavalier hat, also chevaliers – wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes
• Chapeau-bras, also chapeau-de-bras – 18th- to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm
• Chaperon – a series of hats that evolved in 14th- and 15th-century Europe from the medieval hood of the same name
• Cocked hat
• Colback – a fur headpiece of Turkish origin
• Deerstalker – hunting cap with fold-down ears, associated with Sherlock Holmes, Elmer Fudd, Holden Caulfield, and Ignatius Reilly
• Fedora
• Fez
• Hanfu hats and headwear – ancient Chinese hats
• Homburg
• Kolpik
• Litham
• Panama hat
• Papakha
• Pava
• Peci
• Pith helmet – for use in tropical regions; the American fiber helmet is a version of it
• Pork pie hat
• Shovel hat
• Shtreimel
• Sombrero
• Spodik
• Keffiyah or |Sudra
• Papal tiara – a hat traditionally worn by the Pope, which has been abandoned in recent decades, in favor of the mitre
• Top hat, also stovepipe hat, chimney pot hat, lum hat, or gibus
• Tricorne
• Trilby, sometimes called "Fedora"
• Wideawake hat
• Umbrella hat

  Women's

• Bandeau hat
• Beaver
• Beehive
• Bergère hat
• Bloomer
• Bongrace – a velvet-covered headdress, stiffened with buckram – 16th century
• Breton – originating in 19th-century France, a lightweight hat, usually in straw, with upturned brim all the way round
• Capeline – 18th–19th century
• Capotain – a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black – also, copotain, copatain
• Cartwheel hat – low crown, wide stiff brim
• Cocktail hat
• Doll hat – a scaled-down hat, usually worn tilted forward on the head
• Gainsborough hat – a very large hat often elaborately decorated with plumes, flowers, and trinkets
• Half hat – a millinery design that only covers part of the head and may be stiffened fabric or straw
• Hennin
• Kokoshnik
• Nón lá, Vietnam
• Nón quai thao, Vietnam
• Ochipok
• Pamela hat
• Pussyhat - a pink, knitted hat created in large numbers by thousands of participants involved with the United States 2017 Women's March
• Tantour

  Unclassified

• Archer's bonnet
• Balibuntal – straw hat from the Philippines
• Castor or caster – beaver or rabbit
• Chip hat
• Cloche
• Cockle hat
• Cony or coney
• Coolie hat
• Copintank, also copentank, coptank, copitaine
• Cordies
• Cossack hat
• Demicastor hat
• Directoire
• Dolly Varden
• Fan-tail hat
• Flat
• Garbo hat
• Garibaldi hat
• Gipsy hat
• Golden hat – from Bronze Age Europe
• Gossamer hat
• Grebe hat
• Halo hat – millinery design in which the headgear creates a circular frame for the face, creating a halo effect.
• Hat Terrai Gurkha, worn only by Gurkha Contingent officers in Singapore
• Homburg; a black Homburg was also known as an "Anthony Eden"
• Hunting hat
• Jaapi of Assam, India
• Jerry
• Kausia
• Kevenhuller
• Kiss-me-quick hat
• Leghorn hat
• Mandarin hat
• Manilla hat
• Marquis hat
• Matinée hat
• Merry Widow hat
• Moab
• Montera
• Mourning hat
• Mousquetaire
• Müller hat
• Mushroom
• Petasos
• Pill box hat
• Quadricorn – a four-cornered hat.
• Sugar loaf
• Veiled hat, also bird cage hat.

  Caps

Caps worn by men in the past, or rarely worn today

• Aviator's cap
• Barretina
• Brodrick cap
• Cap and bells
• Capeline – a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
• Cricket cap
• Dunce cap
• Forage cap
• Hooker-doon, a cloth cap with a peak, in Scotland.
• Icelandic tail-cap
• Jockey's cap
• Kalpak
• Loovuuz, Mongolian fur headgear.
• Monmouth cap
• Phrygian cap
• Pileus
• Pillbox cap
• Sailor cap
• Shako
• Smoking cap
• Sou'wester, or "Cape Ann," a flexible waterproof hat traditionally worn by sailors
• Whoopee cap, a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid 20th century in the United States

  Caps worn by women in the past

• Boudoir cap
• Icelandic tail-cap
• Juliet cap
• Mob-cap
• Pinner

  Caps worn on ceremonial occasions

• Black cap
• Cap of Maintenance

  Bonnets

Bonnets for women

• Cabriolet
• Capote – soft crown, rigid brim, nineteenth century
• Chip bonnet
• Gypsy bonnet – shallow to flat crown, saucer shaped, and worn by tying it on with either a scarf or sash, under the chin, or at the nape of the neck – nineteenth Century
• Kiss-me-quick
• Leghorn bonnet
• Mourning bonnet
• Poke bonnet – Early nineteenth century, "Christmas Carol" style, with a cylindrical crown and broad funnel brim
• Ugly – a kind of retractable visor that could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, nineteenth century

  Bonnets for men

• Balmoral bonnet
• Blue bonnet, the ancestor of the Balmoral, feather, Glengarry and other men's bonnets
• Feather bonnet
• Glengarry bonnet
• Tam o'shanter

  Helmets

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• Bashlyk
• Bongrace, the stiffened back of the hood when flipped over the forehead to provide shade; also a separate headdress to provide shade, worn with a hood or coif, Tudor/Elizabethan
• Bonnet head
• Capirote, traditionally worn by the Nazarenos of a Spanish Brotherhood during solemn penitence
• Chaperon adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hood and hat
• Flemish hood
• French hood
• Gable hood
• Hood – modern or historical, attached to tops or shirts, overcoats, cloaks, etc.
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Medieval hood
• Mourning hood
• Riding hood
• Stuart hood

  Headbands, headscarves, wimples

• Abaya
• Buknuk
• Chador
• Chaperon adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hat, hood and scarf
• Coif
• Crispine thirteenth century European women's style of padding hair in a net and headband
• Dupatta, also shayla or milfeh
• Headband
• Headscarf, also khimar, hijab,
• Khimar
• Mandily
• Nemes
• Snood
• Veil
• Wimple

  Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face

• See Mask for a fuller list of masks.
• Balaclava or ski mask
• Battoulah
• Bongrace – a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a separate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan
• Boushiya
• Burqa, also burka, burga, burqua
• Diving mask
• Full-face diving mask
• Gas mask
• Orthodontic Facemask
• Latex mask
• Litham
• Niqab
• Tagelmust, also cheich
• Tudong
• Veil
• Visor
• Wedding veil

  Other headdress

Women's

• Alice band
• Bandanna
• Bandeau
• Fascinator
• Mitre, also miter
• Perak
• Visor
• Wreath

  Men's

• Arab headdress
• * A white cap or skullcap: * taqiya, also tagiyah, gahfiah
• * covered by the flowing scarf: ghutrah, also gutra, smagh, shmagh, kaffiyeh, kufiyyeh, keffiyeh, keffiyah, kaffiye, keffiya
• * Kept in place by a band around the cap and scarf: igal, also egal, agal, aqal, ogal
• Bandana, also bandanna
• Do-rag
• Stocking cap
• Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
• Upe
• Visor

  Jeweled

• Coronet
• Crown
• *Holy Crown of Hungary
• *Imperial Crown of India
• *Imperial State Crown
• *St Edward's Crown
• Diadem
• Tiara
• * Papal tiara

  Wigs

• Toupee
• Wig

  Headgear organised by function

Religious

Buddhist

• Gasa
• Pan Zva

  Christian

• Biretta
• Camauro
• Canterbury cap
• Cappello romano
• Galero
• Kalimavkion
• Klobuk
• Koukoulion
• Mantilla
• Mitre
• Montenegrin cap
• Papal tiara
• Skufia
• Wimple
• Zucchetto

  Hindu

• Mukut – Crown worn by Hindu deities
• Pagri – Indian Hindu turban
• Pheta – Marathi turban
• Rasam Pagri – religious ceremony of the turban
• Sarpech – ornament worn with turban

  Jewish

• Havalim ropes that are referenced in Kings I 20:31. Used as a sign of mourning.
• Kashket
• Kippah or yarmulke
• Kolpik
• Migba'at was likely a cone-shaped Turban. This turban was likely only worn in the context of the priesthood and is cited in Exodus 27:20–30.
• Mitznefet was most likely a classic circular turban. This is derived from the fact that Hebrew word Mitznefet comes from the root "to wrap." This turban was likely only worn in the context of the priesthood and is cited in Exodus 27:20–30.
• Pe’er mentioned in Ezekiel 24: 17;23. In verse 17, Ezekiel commands the Israelites to “wrap their” Pe’ers around their heads. In verse 23, Ezekiel tells the Israelite that their Pe’er's "shall remain on your heads.” is usually used to refer to phylacteries )
• Sheitel is a wig worn by some married women in order to maintain marital modesty in public
• Shtreimel
• Spodik
• Gargush
• Sudra is a headdress, similar to the keffiyah worn by Jewish men in the ancient near-east.

  Muslim

• Hijab
• * Types of hijab
• Kufi
• Songkok
• Taqiyah
• Turban

  Sikh

• Sikh turban

  Military and police

• Barretina
• Bearskin
• Beefeaters' hat
• Beret
• Bersagliere
• Bicorne
• Boonie hat
• Busby
• Campaign hat, also drill instructor hat, drill sergeant hat, ranger hat, sergeant hat, Smokey Bear hat
• Cap comforter, a woollen hat associated with British Commandos
• Caubeen
• Chapeau-bras, also chapeau de bras – 18th to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm
• Combination cap, also service cap, combination cover, peaked cap
• Custodian helmet, headwear of the British police officer, ranks of Sergeant and Constable
• Envelope Busby or Astrakhan, worn by Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada
• Feather bonnet
• Flying helmet – closely fitting solid helmet designed to resist impacts within the cockpit of military aircraft – colloquially known as a 'bone dome'
• Garrison cap, also campaign cap, wedge cap, flight cap, garrison hat, overseas cap
• Glengarry, also Glengarry bonnet, Glengarry cap
• Hardee hat
• Helmet
• Jeep cap
• Kartus – a peakless cap worn by the Swedish army during the Great Northern War. Called the Kabuds by the Danish and Norwegians and the Kartooze by the Russians, nations which also adopted it
• Kepi
• Mirliton – a high tubular concave hat with a "wing", worn by hussars in the 18th and early 19th centuries
• Mitre
• Patrol cap
• Pickelhaube – a spiked German leather helmet.
• Sailor cap, also known as "white hat" or "dixie cup" in the US Navy
• Shako
• Shaguma - Yak-hair headdress used by early Imperial Japanese Army generals
• Slouch hat – One side of hat droops down as opposed to the other which is pinned against the side of the crown
• Tarleton helmet – A leather helmet with a large crest. Popular with cavalry and light infantry in the late 18th and early 19th century. Named after British military commander, Banastre Tarleton.
• Tricorn – Three-cornered hat synonymous with the 18th century. Worn by musketeers, dragoons and cuirassiers of all western armies, also often by French grenadiers.
• War bonnet, the feathered headdress worn warriors and chiefs of Plains Indians.

  Officials and civil workers

China (historical)

• Qing official headwear
• Ming official headwear
• Song official headwear
• Tang official headwear

  Other specialist headgear

• Casquette or Cycling Cap
• Chef's hat, also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
• Coronet
• Cowboy hat
• Crown
• Cucupha
• Energy dome
• Firefighter's helmet
• Gas mask
• Green eyeshade
• Headlamp
• Night cap
• Nurse's cap
• Orthodontic headgear
• Party hat
• Printer's hat also pressman's hat
• Propeller hat
• Santa's hat
• Scrum cap
• Shower cap, a flexible plastic covering to protect the hair from getting wet, as used when taking a shower.
• Space helmet
• Square academic cap
• Stormy Kromer cap
• Swimming cap, also "swim cap" and "bathing cap"
• Tin Foil hat
• Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
• Visor
• Watermelon Helmet
• Wedding veil

  National dress; association with a country, people and religion

• Aso Oke Hat – Yoruba people
• Barretina – Catalan
• Bearskin hat
• Beret – French, Basque
• Bhatgaunle Topi – Nepal
• Blangkon – Javanese and Sundanese people
• Breton, also Bretonne
• Chupalla – Chilean
• Chullo – Peruvian
• Clop – Romanian
• Coolie hat
• Coonskin hat – American frontiersman
• Cork hat – Australia
• Cossack hat
• Dogon hat – Dogon people, West Africa
• Fez
• Feathered headdress – Native American
• Flat cap – English people and Irish people
• Four Winds hat – Sami people
• Fulani hat – Fula people, West Africa
• Glengarry bonnet
• Għonnella or Faldetta – Maltese
• Haida hat
• Irish walking hat – Irish people
• Kofia – Swahili people, East Africa
• Kufi – West Africa
• Leopard cap – Igbo people, West Africa
• Mandarin hat – Chinese
• Mokorotlo – Basotho/Lesotho
• Montenegrin cap – Montenegrins, Serbs
• Lungee - Pashtun people, Afghanistan
• Pakol – Pashtun people, Afghanistan
• Phrygian cap – Roman, French
• Qeleshe – Albanian
• Šajkača – Serbian
• Salakot – Filipino
• Shripech – Traditional Crown of Monarch of Nepal
• Slouch hat, also digger hat, Australia and New Zealand
• Songkok – Malay-speaking peoples of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
• Tam o'shanter – Scottish
• Ti'i langga – Rote Island
• Top hat – English
• Topor – Bengali men's wedding headgear
• Turban
• Tuque or toque – Canadian, esp. French-Canadian/Québécois
• Upe - Bougainville
• Ushanka – Russian
• Welsh hat
• Witch hat - Galician
• Zulu crown – Zulu people, Southern Africa, see kufi for information