Purple Bonnet

A decorated purple beret or bonnet 

This cap is made of a bright purple velvet-like fabric

Decorated with a feather, beads and binding.

The cap would fit what is called the renaissance period

An elasticated headband makes it one size fits all (unless youre an alien)

Brown Wool Cap

This great cap is made from wool, typical of the muffin cap style used in the late medieval period and onwards.

Came as part of a pile of kit from somebody given up the LRP hobby.

Excellent hat, needs to get used

You can even change the look by pulling up the crown. 

 

Star Wars Cap

This hat is designed to look like a Star Wars Imperial officers cap. 

Described as a police officers cap possible to get around copyright or maybe star wars stole the caps from the police service that use them.

Imperial officers of the Galactic Republic were the cannon fodder of Darth Vader, they only lasted a short while before being demoted by light sabre or other deadly means.

I don't have an Imperial officers uniform to go with it so I'm just wearing an oriental jacket with a high collar which is about as close as I can get.

The hat was cheap and one size fits all, so a size too big for my head.

Mob Hat

 A Mob hat or cap was worn by Georgian women of any status. 

Its also called a Mop cap which is probably due to a subtle change its use from a frilly bonnet to a hat used by victorian maids who mopped the floor.

This style of hat is mainly associated today with Victorian maids and would normally be white.

Basically, a round cloth gathered with a ribbon or string to give a ruffle brim and covering.

Designed to keep the hair under control, modern plastic and net variants are used in clean environments such as food factories for the same reason.

These caps or a version of them were worn by men at least in the early 18th century but were predominantly women headwear.

Cloth Cap

 I have a few flat caps, this is one of my favourites.

Not sure what makes it a favourite, maybe the brown colour works well with other clothing or maybe its just a comfortable hat.

I have posted so many flat caps before so not much new to say, an old cap that still fashionable in today's world.

Stripey Cap

Stripey flat cap, because it a cap with stripey fabric, what more can I say

Many of these photographs prove I can use my finger to point. clever eh :)

Scally Cap

Guess from the photo below where this cap came from.

A gift from my mother as visited Ireland

In Ireland, flat caps go by many names such as Duckbill Hat, Paddy Cap, Pub Cap, Tweed cap, Cabbie cap and probably many more 

This one obviously for the tourist market is still a genuinely good quality hat

 Sporting a shamrock the symbol of Ireland or at least its patron saint, Patrick.

Duffer Cap

Duffer cap, more commonly called flat caps around here.

Flat caps as said before do have many names (see the previous post here) a new name I've recently discovered comes from New Zeeland where they are apparently called Cheese Cutters

Flat caps like baseball caps can be worn for many different occasions and work alongside many different outfits

This was a Christmas present from AndyH

Shooting Cap

This flat cap was found in old suitcase on a flea market store selling all sorts of miscellaneous bits.

Its from a tweed style fabric making it more of a county mans flat cap of the sort worn by shooting set, even the likes of Prince Charles could be seen in this style of cap.  

This cap is from quite a bright tweed and feels like I should be out in the summer sun driving an old open top sports car, or maybe golfing.  Since I don't own a sports car or a set of golf clubs I guess I will have just use it as a walking cap.

Note to self, need to wear this hat more.

Flatcap

The flat cap or flatcap is a rounded cloth cap with a small stiff brim in front and is usually made of wool, tweed or cotton and lined with a softer fabric. 

 The hat is also known at least according to wikipedia as a Cabbie cap, Longshoreman's cap, Cloth cap, Scally cap, Wigens cap, Ivy cap, Golfers cap, Duffer cap, Duckbill cap, Driving cap, Jeff cap, Irish cap, Newsboy cap, Crook cap, or a Paddy cap, in Scotland its called a Bunnet, in Wales its called Dai cap. That's more names than I knew and I think easily beats all the names you can find for other styles of hats. 

 The original flat cap can be traced back as far the 14th century.

The growth of woollen cloth hats of many styles came about when a act of parliament in the late 16th century made not wearing a woollen hat on Sundays for males an offence, basically the law was designed to stimulate the wool trade, this gave rise to common wearing of caps and so became a recognised symbol of common man in England, even today its still associated with a working class man even though many wealthy and iconic people wear them. 

 Flat caps became very popular in 19th and 20th century throughout Britain, Ireland and United States, although it seem to have been totally supplanted in current times by the baseball cap especially in  United States. 

 The hat I'm wearing a traditional northern England flat cap