Hats and Headwear around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia

According to the old advertising slogan, “If you want to get ahead, get a hat”. Author Beverly Chico has spent the past 30 years doing just that – amassing over 600 hundred items of headgear from 100 countries around the world, to form a collection spanning five centuries of crowning style and practicality. From the historical to the cultural, the balaclava to the burqa, this entertaining compendium has a hat for all occasions – and not only hats, but also examples of caps, crowns, wigs and veils.

In compiling “a global overview of hats and headwear”, Beverly Chico has put...