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Newsboy cap. Eight-paneled caps in various colors. Newsboys in St. Louis, USA, 1910. The newsboy cap, newsie cap, or baker boy hat (British) is a casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. It has a similar overall shape and stiff peak ( visor) in front as a flat cap, but the body of the cap is rounder, made of eight pieces, fuller, and ...
A fascinator is a formal headpiece, a style of millinery. Since the 1990s, the term has referred to a type of formal headwear worn as an alternative to the hat; it is usually a large decorative design attached to a band or clip. In contrast to a hat, its function is purely ornamental: it covers very little of the head and offers little or no ...
A flat cap is a rounded cap with a small stiff brim in front, originating in Northern England. The hat is known in Scotland as a bunnet; in Wales as a Dai cap; and in the United States as a scally cap, English cap. Various other terms exist (cabbie cap, driver cap, golf cap, longshoreman cap, ivy cap
Chaperon is a diminutive of chape, which derives, like the English cap, cape and cope, from the Late Latin cappa, which already could mean cap, cape or hood . The tail of the hood, often quite long, was called the tippit or liripipe in English, and liripipe or cornette in French.