List of hats and headgear

Hats

Caps and hats commonly worn today

• balmoral
• baseball cap
• beanie or skully
• beret
• boonie hat
• Borsalino
• bucket hat also fishing hat (UK) or Dixie Cup hat (US)
• capuchon
• chicken hat
• chupalla
• cloche hat
• cricket cap
• peaked cap, also combination cap
• cowboy hat
• engineer's cap
• fedora
• fiddler's cap, also Dutch boy cap
• Fitted cap, popularized by rap artists
• floppy fedora
• flat cap, also bunnet, cloth cap, driver cap, golf cap, or Windsor cap
• flip hat, baseball style cap with the brim intentionally flipped upwards (associated with punk rock)
• garrison cap
• Greek fisherman's cap, also captain's cap
• Ivy cap or scally cap, the typical Irish hat
• kepi
• kofia, worn by Swahili people, see kufi
• kufi, traditional cap worn by men of African descent
• Muir cap, the traditional leather biker-style cap worn by leathermen
• nasaq, the crocheted headgear of some Canadian Inuit
• nightcap
• Newsboy cap, also Gatsby cap
• Pakol
• Rogatywka
• salakot
• skullcap
• ski hat
• student cap
• Suma cap
• Tam o'shanter or Tammy
• tam, most commonly associated with the Rastafari movement
• taqiya, also tagiyah--resembles the yarmulke
• Topi (cap), traditional cap worn by Muslim men, also called a taqiyah (cap)
• tuque, also knit hat, knit cap, sock cap, stocking cap, watch cap, toboggan, ski cap or skull cap
• turban
• yarmulke, also kippa, kippah or skullcap, Jewish traditional
• welder's cap
• Vueltiao A Colombian typical hat with woven and sewn dried tinted palm strips and indigenous figures.
• yachting cap
• zucchetto
• Zulu crown, see kufi for information

Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today

Men's

• Akubra
• Anthony Eden hat
• beaver
• Beefeaters' hat
• bicorne
• boater, also basher, skimmer
• bowler, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby
• 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 - 17th Century
• carriage hat - 1780s-1820s
• 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 adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hat
• chimney-pot hat, also lum-hat, Victorian, also worn by clerics in the Greek Orthodox Church
• cocked hat
• deerstalker, hunting cap with fold-down ears, associated with Sherlock Holmes, Elmer Fudd, and Holden Caulfield.
• fedora
• fez
• homburg
• karakul
• kolpik
• Panama hat
• Peci
• pork pie
• shtreimel
• spodik
• sombrero
• top hat, also stovepipe hat
• tricorne
• trilby
• ushanka
• war bonnet

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
• Gainsborough hat -a very large hat often elaboratly decorated with plumes, flowers, and trinkets.
• Nón lá, Vietnam.
• Nón quai thao, Vietnam.

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
• crinoline , also gibus-hat
• demicastor hat
• Directoire
• Dolly Varden
• fan-tail hat
• flat
• Gainsborough
• Garbo hat
• Garibaldi hat
• gipsy hat
• gossamer hat
• grebe hat
• halo-brim hat
• the Hat Terrai Gurkha, worn only by Gurkha Contingent officers in Singapore
• Homburg; a black Homburg was also known as an "Anthony 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
• veiled hat, also bird cage hat

Caps

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

• aviator's cap
• barretina
• capeline - a steel skullcap worn by archers in the Middle Ages
• cap'n'bells ("Jester cap" or "jester hat")
• Pileus (hat)
• Phrygian cap
• smoking cap

Caps worn by women in the past

• mob-cap
• pinner

Caps worn only by nobility and only on ceremonial occasions

• Cap of Maintenance

Bonnets

Bonnets for women

• Cabriolet
• Capote - soft crown, rigid brim, 19th 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 - 19th Century
• Kiss-me-quick
• Leghorn bonnet
• Mourning bonnet
• Poke bonnet - Early 19th 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, 19th century

Bonnets for men

• glengarry bonnet
• tam o'shanter
• Frob head spectacular
• Glassy Oh So Fine
• Jobby head
• Balmoral Bonnet, as worn by the Black Watch.

Helmets

Hoods

• bonnet head
• Chaperon (headgear) 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
• Capirote, AKA The Ku Klux Klan hood originally worn by Spanish Nazarenes
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Medieval hood
• mourning hood
• riding hood
• Stuart hood
• 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

Headbands, headscarves, wimples

• abaya
• buknuk
• chador
• Chaperon (headgear) adaptable late Middle Ages "dead-chicken" hat, hood and scarf
• coif
• crispine 13th Century European women's style of padding hair in a net and headband
• dupatta, also shayla or milfeh
• khimar
• headscarf, also khimar, hijab, ohrni
• snood
• veil
• wimple

Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face

• See Mask for fuller list of masks.
• balaclava (helmet) or skimask
• boushiya
• burqa, also burka, burga, burqua
• diving mask
• full-face diving mask
• gas mask
• niqab
• veil
• wedding veil
• visor
• headband

Other headdress

Women's

• alice band
• bandanna
• 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'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
• visor
• do-rag
• stocking cap
• topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear

Jeweled

• coronet
• crown
• Imperial Crown of India
• Imperial State Crown
• St Edward's Crown
• tiara
• Papal tiara
• diadem

Wigs

• toupee
• wig

Headgear organised by function

Religious

Christian

• Mitre
• Mantilla
• wimple

Catholic

• Biretta
• Camauro
• Cappello romano
• Galero
• Papal tiara
• Zucchetto

Anglican

• Canterbury cap

Orthodox

• Kamilavkion
• Klobuk
• Skufia

Muslim

• Fez
• Taqiyah (cap)
• Peci

Jewish

• Kippah or yarmulke

Hasidic

• Kashket
• Shtreimel
• Spodik

Buddhist

• gasa

Sikh

• Sikh turban

Military and police

• barretina
• Beefeaters' hat
• bearskin
• beret
• bersagliere
• bicorne
• boonie hat
• busby
• campaign hat, also drill instructor hat, drill sergeant hat, ranger hat, sergeant hat, Smokey Bear hat''
• Caubeen
• chapeau-bras, also chapeau de bras - 18th to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm
• Civil War cap, also rebel cap
• combination cap
• Custodian helmet, head wear of the British police officer, ranks of Sergeant and Constable
• Envelope Busby, 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, cunt cap, flight cap, garrison hat, overseas cap
• gas mask
• Glengarry, also Glengarry bonnet, Glengarry cap
• Hardee hat
• helmet
• jeep cap
• kepi
• patrol cap
• shako
• slouch hat
• Spanish hat

Officials and civil workers

• Chinese hat knob
• Manchu official headwear
• Ming official headwear

Other specialist headgear

• chef's hat, also toque blanche, or more familiarly, toque
• coronet
• cowboy hat
• crown
• fire-hat
• gas mask
• mortarboard
• night cap
• nurse's cap
• power dome
• printer's hat also pressman's 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
• swimming cap
• topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear
• visor
• wedding veil

National dress; association with a country or people

• Aso Oke Hat - Nigeria
• barretina - Catalan
• bearskin hat
• beret - French, Basque
• Bhatgaunle Topi - Nepal
• Breton, also Bretonne
• chupalla - Chilean
• clop - Romanian
• coolie hat
• coonskin hat - American frontiersman
• Cossack hat
• Dogon hat - Dogon people, West Africa
• fez
• feathered headdress
• Four Winds hat
• Fulani straw hat - Fula people, West Africa
• glengarry bonnet
• Għonnella or Faldetta - Maltese
• Haida hat
• Kofia - Swahili people, East Africa, see kufi
• Kufi - Africans
• Leopard cap - Igbo people, West Africa
• Mandarin hat - Chinese
• mokorotlo - Basotho/Lesotho
• Montenegrin cap - Montenegrins
• Pakol - Pashtun people, Afghanistan
• Phrygian cap - Roman, French
• qeleshe - Albanian
• šajkača - Serbian
• salakot - Filipino
• sari - India
• Shripech - Traditional Crown of Monarch of Nepal
• slouch hat, also digger hat, Australian slouch hat
• tam o'shanter - Scottish
• top hat - English
• topor - Bengali men's wedding headgear
• turban
• tuque or toque - Canadian, esp. French-Canadian/Québécois
• ushanka - Russian
• Welsh hat
• Zulu crown - Zulu people, Southern Africa, see kufi for information