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A skullcap made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. Wideawake: A broad brimmed felt "countryman's hat" with a low crown. Widow's cap: A cap worn by women after the death of their husbands. Wizard/witch hat Pointed hat
A fedora (/ f ə ˈ d ɔːr ə /) [1] is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides. [ 3 ] Fedoras can also be creased with teardrop crowns, diamond crowns, center dents, and others, and the positioning of pinches can vary.
Frank Sinatra was identified with trilby hats, and there is a signature design trilby bearing his name. The reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson often wears a trilby during his performances. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau wore a Herbert Johnson trilby in Blake Edwards 's A Shot in the Dark (1964), the second of his Pink Panther series ; the ...
Fedora: A soft, felt hat with a medium brim and lengthwise crease in the crown Fez: Red felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, common to Arab-speaking countries Fulani hat: A conical, plant-fiber hat covered in leather both at the brim and top, worn by men of the Fulani people in West Africa Hard hat
In the Indian subcontinent, it is called a topi (Bengali: টুপি, Hindi: टोपी, Urdu: ٹوپی) which means hat or cap in general. In Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and men usually wear the topi with kurta and paijama. In the United States and Britain, many Muslim merchants sell the prayer cap under the name kufi.
Winston Churchill wearing a homburg hat Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt wearing homburg hats. A homburg is a semi-formal hat of fur felt, characterized by a single dent running down the centre of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a wide silk grosgrain hatband ribbon, a flat brim shaped in a "pencil curl", and a ribbon-bound trim about the edge of the brim.
Over 100 different styles, various colours and brim widths are produced in the Akubra hat range. [11] [12] The hats are popularly thought of as being worn by older people in rural Australia however in the 1920s Akubra was known more for making "fashion hats" such as Fedoras. The company sells hats in rural and urban areas.
The origins of the pork pie hat in Western fashion lay in the 1860s. Initially an item of women’s wear, this accessory was identifiable through its shape, particularly the narrow brim which distinctively curled round towards the crown of the hat, which was flat, and usually made from straw or velvet in this period. [2]