Marshall Rich

Back in 1872 when I was a cowboy I liked to wear my black hat.

Then one day I got shot in the shoulder by a cat rustler.

I survived. 

The cat rustler realised herding cats was a bad plan and took up baking.

 The cats remain unrustled.

Du-rag

The Du-rag or Do-rag is scarf worn on the head meant to be worn after a hair treatment or to protect other headwear from the hair.

The Du-rag became a symbol of a black power movement in the 1960s and later adopted as an African American fashion accessory to wear on its own. 

The Du-rag is also used by motorcyclist under the helmet to protect the helmet liner from sweat and greasy hair. 

The name Du-rag I've read is actually short for dew or sweat from the head so could be sweat rag. The name as also been associated with do meaning hairdo, either is possible but neither may be true.

The actual du-rags in these pictures are specially shaped scarves with ties and slightly stretchy fabric making them easy to tie onto your head.

Sock Hats

All pirates without a tricorn or bandana have one good choice left the sock hat.

These sock hats are made from stretchy tubes of jersey material, one end of the tube is knotted which add a nice weighty end to the tip of the hat.

 Part of a bag of 10 sock hats that form part of clubs stock pirate kit, with the odd minor repair they have been around for 20 years.

Easy to make and easy to wear, one size fits all.

is it a bird

is it a seagul

No its flying whale

so watch out for the poop

Chapo-turban

This chaperone from a set of medieval theatre hats is more Arabian Nights than medieval.

The fabrics that have been chosen along with the beads and sequins totally change the look of this headgear.

It now needs to be used for a character out of the stories of the Arabian Nights.

What's left of the fabric hangs down the back of the neck and is covered in sequins.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your point of view, there was no genie in the lamp.

A hat! a hat! my Kingdom for a hat!

A mock Tudor period hat 

Whilst the correct shape, the materials are wrong and proportion a little exaggerated, although I have no doubt people in the period did add lots of flashy bits to make them stand out.

This hat came as part of a job lot of theatrical medieval hats I purchased via eBay.

Perfect for your Shakespearian play.

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!", said Richard not me but King Richard the Third at the battle of Bosworth, at least according to Sheakspear.

Hat Blog 4 years onward

Back on the 17th May 2015 I made my first post to this blog and said 

 "I will post a picture of me in one my many hats every week, never the same hat until I run out of hats which should take me to around 2017 with the hats I have at the moment, after that who knows" 

It's now 2019, I have continued well past 2017 posting a hat almost every week, I now believe I have enough hats to take me into 2020, after that who knows

During this time blogger stats say my most read post was one titled medieval baseball cap, a post about a robin hood style, bycocket that can be worn backwards like some people wear baseball caps

The most popular themes seem to be my post about my more usual hats and also oriental hats, I assume this is because most other hat styles are well covered elsewhere.

I also intend to start adding a few informative posts.

I Stole Gandalfs Hat

This is felt wizards hat, grey in colour similar to Gandalf's from the Lord of Rings/The Hobbit films and images.

Apparently, the name Gandalf comes via Tolkien from a Norse mythology name meaning staff man or wand elf.

Gandalf wore the grey hat before he became head of the Middle Earth wizards, while he was the Grey Wanderer, the Grey Pilgrim, Greyhame, Gandalf the Grey, among many other names which don't contain the word grey.

The hat will soon be adopted by a character I play in lrp.

The hat was purchased from Leonardo Carbone.

Brown Muffin Cap

This renaissance beret, muffin cap or whatever you wish to call this style of simple cloth cap.

Like a modern beret it as a brim the circumference of your head to which is fixed an abundance of fabric so overhang and droops over the brim, in the muffin cap this is much more extreme than a modern beret often involving the fabric being pleated onto the brim.