This is a list of various kinds of hat, contemporary or traditional. Headgear has been common throughout the history of humanity, present on some of the very earliest preserved human bodies and art. A small hat commonly made with feathers, flowers and/or beads. [5] It attaches to the hair by a comb, headband or clip. A skullcap made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. A floppy fabric pull-on hat, usually worn with its top flopped down. In red, it is now used as a symbol of Catalan identity.

A cap widely worn in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand, mostly among Muslim males. May be related to the taqiyah.

Also known as a Gainsborough hat and garden hat, this is an elaborate women's design with a wide brim. Headgear, usually made from fabric such as cotton and/or polyester, that covers the whole head, exposing only the face or part of it. Sometimes only the eyes or eyes and mouth are visible. Also known as a ski mask. A traditional Korean winter cap mostly worn by women in the Joseon and Daehan Jeguk periods (1392–1910).

A soft brimmed hat popular in New York after the turn of the century made from eight quarter panels. Also known as a newsboy cap. Distinctive hat worn by farmers in the Bangladesh and Eastern India made of bamboo with a conical top. A generic worldwide military hat with a flat, circular top and visor. First seen in central Europe. A tall fur cap, usually worn as part of a ceremonial military uniform. Traditionally, the headgear of grenadiers, and remains in use by grenadier and guards regiments in various armies. Sometimes mistakenly identified as a busby.

Hats in Art

Distinctive hat worn by bishops in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. Flat, square hat. Usually has a button centered on top. A tassel is attached to the button and draped over one side. Worn as part of academic dress. Traditionally, when worn during graduation ceremonies, the new graduates switch the tassel from one side to the other at the conclusion of the ceremony.

A traditional Malay, Indonesian and Bruneian male headwear. It is made from long songket cloth folded and tied in particular style (solek). A woman's hat resembling an upturned fruit basket. Usually lavishly trimmed, it achieved notoriety in the early 1900s. A conical pointed hat with eye holes. Historically associated with the Ku Klux Klan in the United States of America, but still used elsewhere in other contexts (such as the example illustrated, featuring people from Nazareno processing during Holy Week in Spain). Casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. Like a flat cap, it has a similar overall shape and stiff peak (visor) in front, but the body of the cap is rounder, fuller, made of eight pieces, and panelled with a button on top and often with a button attaching the front to the brim.Bamboo basket worn over the head covering the entire head with just holes for the eyes and worn by some members of the Makapili, Filipinos who were Japanese collaborators during World War II in the Philippines. A type of decorative cap mainly worn in the 19th and early 20th century with sleepwear or lingerie. A Mexican hat with a conical crown and a very wide, saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered made of plush felt. A brimless cap, with or without a small visor, once popular among schoolboys. Sometimes includes a propeller.

Generic term covering wide-brimmed felt-crowned hats often worn by military leaders. Less fancy versions can be called bush hats. A conical hat with a wide brim and a crooked top, traditionally worn by fictional wizards or witches. A soft round cap, usually of woollen felt, with a bulging flat crown and tight-fitting brimless headband. Worn by both men and women and traditionally associated with France, Basque people, and the military. Often part of [European?] schoolgirls' uniform during the 1920s, '30s and '40s. A soft cap, shaped like a squat cylinder or close fitting like a knit cap, and usually heavily embroidered with a tassel on top worn by men while smoking to stop their hair from smelling of tobacco smoke. [7] Also known as a field cap, a scout cap, or in the United States a mosh cap.; a soft cap with a stiff, rounded visor, and flat top, worn by military personnel in the field when a combat helmet is not required.Wide-brimmed and shallow-crowned hat, normally worn at an angle. Popular from 1910s but most closely associated with 1940s-50s fashion. A traditional flat-brimmed and flat-topped hat originating from Córdoba, Spain, associated with flamenco dancing and music and popularized by characters such as Zorro. A characteristic field cap worn by partisans in World War II guerrilla fights as well by the officers of Polish armies.