This is an incomplete list of hats and headgear (that is, anything worn on the head), both modern and historical. [edit] Caps and hats commonly worn today - balmoral
- baseball cap
- batting helmet
- beanie or skully and or visor beanie.
- beret
- bobble hat
- boonie hat
- Borsalino
- bucket hat also fishing hat (UK) or Dixie Cup hat (US)
- capuchon
- 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
- flat cap, also bunnet, cloth cap, driver cap, golf cap, or Windsor cap
- flip hat, baseball style cap with the brim intentionally flipped upwards
- Fruit hat
- garrison cap
- Greek fisherman's cap, also captain's cap
- Ivy cap or scally cap, the typical Irish hat
- karakul
- kepi
- kofia, worn in East Africa
- 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
 Rendering of a baseball cap - sombrero
- straw 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)
- Tubeteika
- 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.
- ushanka
- yachting cap
- zucchetto
- Zulu crown, see kufi for information
[edit] Hats worn in the past, or rarely worn today - Akubra
- Anthony Eden hat
- beaver
- Beefeaters' hat
- bicorne
- boater, also basher, skimmer
- Boss of the plains
- 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
- kolpik
- Panama hat
- Peci
- Papakha
- pork pie
- shtreimel
- spodik
- sombrero
- top hat, also stovepipe hat
- tricorne
- trilby
- war bonnet
[edit] 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
- cocktail hat
- Gainsborough hat -a very large hat often elaboratly decorated with plumes, flowers, and trinkets.
- Nón lá, Vietnam.
- Nón quai thao, Vietnam.
[edit] Unclassified  The traditional bonnet of the Kilwinning Archers of Scotland. [edit] Caps worn by men in the past, or rarely worn today [edit] Caps worn by women in the past [edit] Caps worn only by nobility and only on ceremonial occasions [edit] Bonnets [edit] 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
[edit] Bonnets for men [edit] Helmets See Helmet#Types of helmet - 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
[edit] Headbands, headscarves, wimples  An Iraqi girl wearing a headscarf in downtown Baghdad (April 2005). [edit] Masks, veils and headgear that covers the face [edit] Other headdress [edit] Women'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
[edit] Jeweled [edit] Headgear organised by function [edit] Religious [edit] Christian [edit] Catholic [edit] Anglican [edit] Orthodox [edit] Muslim [edit] Jewish [edit] Hasidic [edit] Buddhist [edit] 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
- 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
- peaked cap, also known as service cap or combination cap
- sailor cap, also known as "white hat" or "dixie cup" in the US Navy
- shako
- slouch hat
- Spanish hat
[edit] Officials and civil workers [edit] Other specialist headgear [edit] National dress; association with a country or people  Afghan boys wearing traditional headgear. Kunduz, Afghanistan (June 2003). - Aso Oke Hat - Yoruba people
- 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
- Kufi - West Africa
- Leopard cap - Igbo people, West Africa
- Mandarin hat - Chinese
- mokorotlo - Basotho/Lesotho
- Montenegrin cap - Montenegrins, Serbs
- 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
- songkok - Malaysia and Indonesia
- 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
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