History
Existence of the conical hat is known as early as the Bronze Age in Middle East and Central Europe. One example is the golden hat worn by members of the priesthood, likely as a ceremonial accessory. In Ancient Greece, the pilos was a common conical travelling hat. Popular among Burgundian noblewomen in the 15th century was a type of conical headgear now called a hennin.[5] Conical hats were also popular in late medieval Vijayanagar, India.
[edit] Types
[edit] Golden hat
Main article: Golden hat
This type of hat is a very specific and rare type of archaeological artifact from Bronze Age Central Europe.
Capuchon
[edit] Capuchon
Main article: Capuchon
A capuchon is a ceremonial hat worn during the Mardi Gras celebration in the Cajun areas of southwestern Louisiana, known as the Courir de Mardi Gras.
Party hat
[edit] Party hat
Main article: Party hat
A party hat is generally a playful conical hat made with a rolled up piece of thin cardboard, usually with designs printed on the outside and a long string of elastic going from one side of the cone's bottom to another to secure the cone to one's head.
Capirote
[edit] Capirote
Main article: Capirote
Historically, the capirote was a cardboard cone that flagellants in Spain would use. It was also used during capital punishment in Spain, and also during an Inquisition, where the condemned person would be forced to wear one and be put under public humiliation.
Jewish hat
[edit] Jewish hat
Main article: Jewish hat
The Jewish hat was often white or yellow, worn by Jews in Medieval Europe and some of the Islamic world.
Dunce cap
[edit] Dunce cap
Main article: Dunce cap
In popular culture, the dunce cap is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word "dunce", and given to schoolchildren to wear as punishment by public humiliation for misbehaviour and, as the name implies, stupidity.
Conical Asian hat
[edit] Conical Asian hat
Main article: Conical Asian hat
Known as a sedge hat, rice hat, paddy hat or coolie hat, this simple style of hat is often made of straw. It originated in East and Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, China, Japan and Korea, Cambodia, Philippines, and Indonesia.
Henin
[edit] Hennin
Main article: Hennin
Most commonly worn in Burgundy and France by women of the nobility, the hennin appears from about 1430 onwards. Later, though, this hat spread more widely, especially in the truncated form. Typically, the hennin was 12 to 18 inches (30 to 45 cm) high, generally accompanied by a veil that usually emerged from the top of the cone and was allowed to fall onto the woman's shoulders.
[edit] Tantour
Tantour
Main article: Tantour
Similar to the hennin, this woman's headdress was popular in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 19th century.[7][8] The most splendid tantours made of gold reaching as high as 30 inches. Some were encrusted with gems and pearls. The tantour was held in by a ribbons tied around the head. A silk scarf was wound around the base with a white veil attached to the peak.[9]
Phrygian cap
[edit] Phrygian cap
Main article: Phrygian cap
The Phrygian cap is a soft cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia.
Pileus
[edit] Pileus
Main article: Pileus (hat)
Predecessor to the Phrygian cap, the pileus was, in Ancient Greece and Rome, a brimless, felt cap, somewhat similar to a fez.
Sugar loaf
This very tall, tapering hat was first worn in medieval times. Its name comes from the loaves into which sugar was formed at that time.[10] The sugar loaf hat is the stereotypical pointed black hat worn by witches.