1. Concept of Headwear

 Generally, the headwear means all of things on one's head.

The headwear has developed variously in styles and purposes with time and area,

Recently, it shows the headwear is designed for matching to clothes of originative.

The headwear has developed in countries kinds of styles and materiales to meet the desires of designers or customers need.  

Despites of very various kind so styles and materials, the headwear is composed with the Crown and the Brim or Brimless styles basically.

We say these are Headdress, Headwear, Headgear, Cap and Hat with including above all.

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 2.History

The Headdress developed from the simple close-fitting cap and hood of antiquity. The first hat, which was distinguished as such by having a brim, was the felt petasus of the Greeks, which tied under the chin and was worn by travelers.

The decorative peaked cap was most popular in the Middle Ages. Later the medieval hood evolved into the 14th cent. turbanlike chaperon with hanging ends, called liripipes; the liripipes originated with the tassels on strings that had been added to the hoods of cloaks.

The simple close-fitting coifs, gorgets, wimples, and veils of early medieval women gave way (in the 14th cent.) to netlike headdresses of jeweled gold wire known as cauls and crespins and later to conical hennins and large decorative butterfly and horn-shaped headdresses with starched veils. In the 16th cent. the beret, of colorful velvet or silk and richly jeweled, feathered, and slashed, was made fashionable by Henry VIII. Women's head coverings progressed from the nunlike gable headdress to the French hood set back on the head to the small heart-shaped Mary Stuart cap.

The 17th cent. saw the high-crowned beaver of the Puritan and the wide plumed hat of the cavalier; by 1660 the brim had become so wide that the corners were turned up forming the tricorne. Women during that century generally wore hoods, although the high-standing, wired lace fontanges and commodes were popular; after 1700 the lace cap became fashionable. By the 19th cent. straw was used in making the recently introduced bonnets for women and Panamas for men. At the same time the beaver, or English round hat, of the 17th and 18th cent. gave way to the silk top hat, or stovepipe; caps and soft felt hats came back into favor; and the derby was introduced by William Bowler in England. Women's hats increased in size with their coiffures, culminating in the plumed and flowered “Merry Widows” of the late 19th cent.; with the advent of the closed automobile, hats became smaller. The 1960s saw a considerable decrease in the wearing and manufacture of hats.

Now days, the hats has developed and prospered very various styles and special fashionable and functional products in human's life.

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3. Styles 

The headwear is divided into Cap , Hat, Bonnet  and Hood widely.

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4. CHOICE / WEARING

The headwear can make you look better for both sporty style or formal dress depend on your choice.

First, consider your dress styles to match the headwear. Note that the headwear shows one's characteristics in wedding ceremony even in funeral.

The cap style matches in dynamin sports, baseball, tennis, jogging, etc. The buckets styles in static plays climbing, fishing, archery. etc.

Also, we have to consider the material for function tho higher the conditions or to get over the  natural disaster. these days shows various special material headwears for protect the body from natural disaster, electromagnetic waves, etc. same as clouth.

One who has the round and big face or flat back head is profitable to select the bucket hat style and to wear the standing front pannel of crown with long brim cap

One who has the oval head or small face is profitable to cap style. The low profile styles shows more fashionable coordination.

The long brim cap may match well with large face, it also shows the dignity for guard or trainer but it's not fit to service laborer of event.

For the service laborer is profitable to without brim or small brim caps.

For children, it goes with the elastic band clousure and soft brim styles. not with thick brim or metal buckle styles.

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5. SIZE 

The strap in back closure controls the several sizes usually.

In sized caps, Select the cap to fit one's head size.

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6. KEEPING & WASHING

Generally keep the headwear in air pass as like a hanger in home.

In wet cap with sweat,  dry first and keep in air pass.

For prevent the musty or remove the sweat, wash in tepid water with hand or brush, dry in the sun with keeping shape.

In laundry washing, use the cap washing frame, no need the frame for washing cap.

Avoid keeping in airtight space for preventing the discolor of the fabrics. often happen in the car in summer.

For leather or suede headwear, remove the dirt with cleaner and dry in shade.