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This is an incomplete list of hats and headgear (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical.

Hats

Hats commonly worn today

Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today

Men's

Women's

Unclassified

Caps

Caps commonly worn today

Caps worn by men in the past


Caps worn by women (historical)

Bonnets

Bonnets for women

  • ugly - a kind of retractable visor which could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, 19th century

Bonnets for men

Helmets

Hoods

  • bongrace - is the stiffened back of the hood when flipped over the forehead to provide shade; also a seperate headdress to provide shade, worn with a hood or coif, Tudor/Elizabethan

Headscarves, wimples

Masks, veils and headgear which covers the face

Other headdresses

Women

  • bandeau
  • bongrace - a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a seperate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan
  • mitre, also miter
  • visor

Men

  • Arab headdress
    • a white cap or skullcap: taqiyah, 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
  • visor

Jeweled

Wigs


Headgear organised by function

Religious

Military and police

Other specialist headgear

National dress; association a country or people

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