Names of hats in English

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

What do you call these hats in English? A Mexican hat is called "a sombrero". I am not sure but I think you call the other hat in the picture "an Eskimo hat" but what about other hats?


From the book "The Hat" by John Escott.

 

[emsr2d2]

In the first picture, they're a peaked cap, a sunhat, a baseball cap and a woolly hat (or a beanie).

 

[SoothingDave]

The "beanie" is listed in Wikipedia as a "knit cap," and there are as many names for it as there are regions in the world, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap

In my peculiar dialect, it is a tossle cap.

 

[GoesStation]

The "beanie" is listed in Wikipedia as a "knit cap," and there are as many names for it as there are regions in the world, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap

In my peculiar dialect, it is a tossle cap.

It's a "toque" (pronounced "toohk") in Canada.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Going left to right and top to bottom:

The first picture has a newsboy cap, a straw hat, a baseball cap, and a watch cap (known in some parts of the US as a toboggan).

The second picture has a crash helmet, an officer's or bus driver's cap, a tamoshanter (or tam), a keffiyeh held in place with an agal, a trilby, a ski mask (I think), the hood of a parka, a nurse's hat, a cowboy hat, a hamburger (really?), a wide-brimmed hat, and a hardhat.

 

[probus]

To a Mexican, every hat or cap is a sombrero, not just the giant brimmed hat that nowadays only mariachis wear.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

To a Mexican, every hat or cap is a sombrero, not just the giant brimmed hat that nowadays only mariachis wear.

Yes. But in American English, we call that kind of hat a sombrero.

It might have other names, too, but if it does, I don't know them.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's a "toque" (pronounced "toohk") in Canada.

Interesting!

And in the US, toque rhymes with broke and is a tall, white chef's hat.

 

[probus]

It's a "toque" (pronounced "toohk") in Canada.

Yes. And in Canada beanie is used for a little skullcap like those worn by religiously observant Jews, a yarmulkah or kippa.

 

[GoesStation]

Yes. And in Canada beanie is used for a little skullcap like those worn by religiously observant Jews, a yarmulkah or kippa.

That's what beanie means to me: a small ornamental cap resembling a yarmulke/kippa. When I was very young, a few boys were still wearing beanies with propellers sticking up. In his dream, it turned into this:

 

[Rover_KE]

Interesting!

And in the US, toque rhymes with broke and is a tall, white chef's hat.

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Likewise in the UK.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Oops. The hat I called a ski mask isn't. It's a balaclava. Sorry.