List of hats and headgear
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This is an incomplete list of hats and headgear (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical.
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Hats
Hats commonly worn today
- Akubra hat
- Alpine hat
- bucket hat
- fedora
- Panama, also jipijapa
- slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
- straw hat
- Stetson
Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today
Men's
- beaver
- beefeater
- bicorne
- boater, also basher
- bowler hat, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat
- boxer a tall hat
- cabbage-tree hat a hat woven from leaves of the cabbage tree
- capotain (and women) - a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black - also, copotain, copatain
- Caroline (hat) - 17th Century
- carriage hat - 1780s-1820s
- caubeen - Irish hat
- cavalier hat, also chevaliers, wide brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes
- chapeau-bras - 18th century, small three cornered hat which was carried under one arm
- chimney-pot hat, also lum-hat, Victorian, also worn by clerics in the Greek Orthodox Church
- cocked hat
- pork pie hat, also trilby
- top hat or stovepipe hat
- tricorne
Women's
- bandeau hat
- beehive
- bergère hat
- bloomer
- bongrace - a wide brimmed hat, 17th/18th century
- Breton
- capeline - 18th/19th century
- capotain (and men) - a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black - also, copotain, copatain
- cart-wheel hat - low crown, wide stiff brim
Unclassified
- 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
- crinoline hat
- crush hat, also gibus-hat
- deerstalker, like that worn by Sherlock Holmes
- demicastor hat
- Derby, also kelly
- Directoire
- Dolly Varden
- fan-tail hat
- flat
- Gainsborough
- Garbo hat
- Garibaldi hat
- gipsy hat
- gossamer hat
- grebe hat
- halo-brim hat
- Homburg; a black Homburg was also known as an "Anthony Eden" or "Eden" (after the politician Anthony Eden)
- hunting hat
- 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
- muff-box
- Müller hat
- mushroom
- petasos
- pill box hat
- sugar loaf
- top hat
- toque
- Trilby
- veiled hat, also bird cage hat
Caps
Caps commonly worn today
- baseball cap
- beanie or skully
- beret
- borsalino
- flat cap, also "cloth cap," "driver cap," "golf cap," or "windsor cap"
- Gatsby cap, also "newsboy cap"
- kepi
- skullcap
- tam
- taqiyah, also tagiyah
- tuque
- yarmulke, also skull cap, Jewish traditional
- nasaq, the crocheted headgear of some Canadian Inuit
Caps worn by men in the past
- aviator's cap
- barretina
- capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
- cap'n'bells ("Jester cap" or "jester hat")
- Phrygian cap
Caps worn by women in the past
Bonnets
Bonnets for women
- cabriolet
- capote - soft crown, rigid brim, 19th century
- chip bonnet
- gipsy bonnet
- kiss-me-quick
- Leghorn bonnet
- mourning bonnet
- poke bonnet
- ugly - a kind of retractable visor that could be attached to bonnets for extra protection from the sun, 19th century
Bonnets for men
- glengarry bonnet
- tam o'shanter
Helmets
- balaclava helmet
- bicycle helmet
- Brodie helmet
- capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
- fire-hat
- football helmet
- hard hat
- helmet
- iron hat
- M1 Helmet
- PASGT kevlar helmet - US replacement for the M1 helmet
- miner's helmet
- motorcycle helmet
- pickelhaube
- pith helmet (a.k.a. sun helmet)
- riding helmet
- space helmet
- stahlhelm
Hoods
- bonnet headdress
- calash
- capulet
- Flemish hood
- French hood
- gable hood
- hood - modern or historical, attached to tops or shirts, overcoats, cloaks, etc
- Ku Klux Klan hood
- Mary Queen of Scots
- medieval hood
- mourning hood
- riding hood
- Stuart hood
- bongrace - is 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
Headscarves, wimples
- abaya
- buknuk
- chador
- coif
- dupatta, also shayla or milfeh
- khimar
- headscarf, also khimar, hijab, ohrni
- veil
- wimple
Masks, veils and headgear which covers the face
- balaclava (helmet) or skimask
- boushiya
- burka, also burqa, burga, burqua
- gas mask
- mask
- loo mask
- niqab
- veil
- wedding veil
- Visor
Other headdresses
Women
- bandeau
- bongrace - a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a separate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan
- mitre, also miter
- visor
Men
- Arab headdress
- bandana, also bandanna
- visor
- durag
- stocking cap
- topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear
Jeweled
Wigs
Headgear organised by function
Religious
- biretta
- bowler hat (Orange Order)
- galero (cardinal's hat)
- coif
- fez
- Geneva hat
- Kamilavkion
- Klobuk
- mitre, also miter, (bishop's tall pointed cap)
- Papal Tiara, also triregnum
- Shtreimel, Hasidic Jewish hat
- Skufia
- Spodik, another type of Hasidic hat
- turban
- veil
- wimple a nun's headdress which covers her hair, sides of her face and throat, worn by other women in earlier centuries
- yarmulke - Jewish skullcap; also Kippah, koppel, capel, coppel
- zucchetto - Catholic skullcap; also pileolus, berettino, calotte, subbiretum, submitrale, soli-deo
Military and police
- barretina
- beefeater
- bearskin
- beret
- bersagliere
- Bone dome - closely fitting solid helmet designed to resist impacts within the cockpit of military aircraft
- busby
- campaign hat, also drill instructor hat, drill sergeant hat, ranger hat, sergeant hat, Smokey Bear hat
- Caubeen
- Combination Cap
- feather bonnet
- garrison cap, also campaign cap, cunt cap, flight cap, garrison hat, overseas cap
- gas mask
- Glengarry, also Glengarry bonnet, Glengarry cap
- Hardee hat
- helmet
- kepi
- lemon squeezer
- shako
- Slouch hat
Officials and civil workers
Other specialist headgear
- chef's hat, also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
- coronet
- crown
- fire-hat
- gas mask
- mortarboard
- night cap
- nurse's cap
- power dome
- scrum-cap
- shower cap, a flexible plastic covering to protect the hair from getting wet, as used when taking a shower.
- space helmet
- swimming cap
- topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear
- visor
- wedding veil
National dress; association with a country or people
- barretina - Catalan
- bearskin hat
- beret - French
- bowler hat - English
- Breton, also Bretonne
- clop - Romanian
- coolie hat
- coonskin hat - American frontiersman
- Cossack hat - Cossacks
- fez
- feathered headdress
- Four Winds hat
- glengarry bonnet
- Haida hat
- mandarin hat - Chinese
- Montenegrin cap - Montenegrins
- Phrygian cap - Roman, French
- qeleshe - Albanian
- šajkača - Serbian
- sombrero - Mexican
- slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
- stetson - American
- tam o'shanter - Scottish
- topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear
- turban
- touque - Canadian, esp. French-Canadian/Québécois
- ushanka - Russian
- Welsh hat