page_title: Headgear
section_title: Hats
hierarchical_section_title: Headgear / Overview of headgear types / Hats
caption_attribution_description: English: Napoleon in a bicorne hat. detail from Napoléon à la bataille de Wagram Museo Napoleonico, Palazzo Primoli, Rome.
context_page_description: Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one's head.
  Headgears serve a variety of purposes:
  protection
  to keep hair contained or tidy
  decoration or fashion
  religious purposes
  medical purposes - for example orthodontic headgear
  modesty; social convention
  distinction; a badge of office
  sport uniform
context_section_description: Hats often have a brim all the way around the rim, and may be either placed on the head, or secured with hat-pins (which are pushed through the hat and the hair). Depending on the type of hat, they may be properly worn by men, by women or by both sexes.
caption: Napoléon Bonaparte in his familiar bicorne hat
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