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A faluche is a traditional cap worn by students in France. It is a black velvet beret, decorated with colored ribbons and badges.. Several student groups wear the faluche, especially bitards, basochards, and faluchards.
A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap. The word cockade derives from the French cocarde, from Old French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. The earliest documented use was in 1709.
Claude Saint-Cyr – sometimes Claude St-Cyr or Claude St. Cyr – (née Simone Naudet, 1911–2002) was a French milliner who worked in both Paris and London between the 1930s and 1960s, also establishing a worldwide reputation for her hats.
French Commandos de Chasse wearing Bigeard caps.. The Bigeard cap (French: casquette Bigeard) is a field cap worn by the French Army and several others.It was allegedly invented by French General Marcel Bigeard [1] [2] to replace the colorful and less practical colored headgear worn by the French Army in First Indochina War.
A French hennin, c. 1460, with several white veils, one reaching down to the face.(The white crescent at the tip belongs to the figure behind.) These appear from about 1430 onwards, [6] especially after the mid-century, initially only among aristocratic women, though later spreading more widely, especially in the truncated form.
General Boulanger wearing a kepi c. 1880. The kepi was formerly the most common headgear in the French Army.Its predecessor originally appeared during the 1830s, in the course of the initial stages of the occupation of Algeria, as a series of various lightweight cane-framed cloth undress caps called casquette d'Afrique.
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It is essentially a type of wimple consisting of a large starched piece of white cloth that is folded upward in such a way as to create the resemblance of horns (French: cornes) on the wearer's head. It remained fashionable for some Parisian ladies around 1800, [ 1 ] wearing ones made of muslin or gauze and richly ornamented with lace .