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Name the types of hats that are depicted below.
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Last updated: March 21, 2018
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Pith Helmet
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Level 85
Mar 20, 2018
Wikipedia: “A ‘sailor cap’ is a round, flat visorless hat worn by sailors in many of the world's navies. A tally, an inscribed black silk ribbon, is tied around the base which usually bears the name of a ship or a navy.”

The “Dixie cup” hat you show doesn’t fit this description. (Not flat, no tally.)

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Level ∞
Mar 21, 2018
Dixie cup would have worked
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Level 85
Mar 20, 2018
That last one is definitely NOT a pith helmet. It is a Prussian helmet of the type Kaiser Wilhelm or Otto Von Bismarck might wear.

A pith helmet is saucer shaped and is designed to protect from the African sun on safari.

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Level 84
Mar 20, 2018
Ironically, that picture comes from the Wikipedia article on pith helmets. It seems to be a very broad category, which includes everything from the helmets worn by the British in India to that German "tropenhelm" c. 1910.
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Level 75
Mar 21, 2018
Wish it was called a 'Wil Helmet'
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Level ∞
Mar 21, 2018
I'm not sure I understand the objection. But in any case I changed the picture. The hat looks almost exactly the same, but the Wikipedia article explicitly says that these are pith helmets.
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Level 69
Aug 2, 2018
Number 16 looks like a possible pith helmet with a spike on top, and the spike makes it a Pickelhaube or Prussian helmet. Please find one without the spike or allow Prussian.
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Level 68
Aug 5, 2018
I think the issue is that a "Pith Helmet" is a method of construction that covers a wide variety of different styles. Most styles of pith helmets do not have a spike. A Pickelhaube (aka Kaizer Helmet, Prussian Helmet, Pickelhelm, Pickel Helmet) is characterized by the spike, although not made of pith.
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Level 78
Dec 5, 2019
But wouldn't it be sensible to at least accept Pickelhaube or spiked helmet?
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2019
Pith helmets originaly are safari helmets, just for the sun. Later also used in the military. Even later though still called pith helmets, they werent truely pith helmets, because they didnt use the pith plant anymore. They just contined to use the name.

Though the helmet in pickelhaube style depicted here could be considered a pith helmet. It is not representative in my opinion. just google pith helmet and see what comes up. Those are generally considered pith helmets. (Khaki coloured, made from pith, with airholes)

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Level 74
Mar 20, 2018
You people really know your hats.

Also, I agree with poetscorner about the Pith.

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Level 62
Mar 21, 2018
While the pickelhaube pictured (#16) may be a pith helmet technically, I double-checked that Wikipedia article that the picture came from and found that the spiked and ornamented style is not typical of pith helmets as the majority of the styles shown there are the much simpler non-spiked and non-ornamented safari style that I, PoetsCorner and almightyjosh appear to be more familiar with.
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Level 72
Mar 21, 2018
Skullcap for Kippah?
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Level 69
Aug 2, 2018
Me too - i’ve never heard either of those in the uk, just skullcap
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Level 72
Aug 2, 2018
Also, why do we need do write the h? (Still mad about the double s at the end of albatross, thus giving in the rage for every obsolete letter.)
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Level 88
Aug 2, 2018
It's more often than not just called a beanie.
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Level 93
Mar 29, 2019
a beanie is much larger not just on the very top of the head.
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2019
A beanie is what hipsters and skaters wear.
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Level 87
Mar 21, 2018
Just adding my vote for the misidentified pith helmet
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Level 77
Mar 21, 2018
#7 looks an awful lot like a porkpie hat.
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
Pork pie hats have a flat top, with just a little indentation around the rim (like a pie crust!). My understanding of Panama hats is that they can be ANY style hat, as long as they are made of Toquila straw.
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Level 88
Aug 2, 2018
I thought pork pie hat and thought of a Panama hat as straw with or without ragged edges.
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Level 73
Mar 23, 2018
I was surprised I got them all, there are a lot of hat types. You could make several more hat type quizzes.

Finally got to level 50!

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Level 71
Mar 25, 2018
Lots of different 'Pith Helmets' used by most colonial civilians and many military personnel, good link ........here it is
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Level 63
Aug 2, 2018
We need a beanie.
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Level 65
Aug 2, 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat

There is a bunch of names for top hat here, they should all be included, I for instance kept trying cylinder because that's how we call it here in Serbia.

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Level 81
Aug 2, 2018
Given that a Homburg is essentially a felt fedora, I think you should accept Homburg as an answer for your picture of a felt fedora....
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Level 81
Aug 2, 2018
Although now I see that a homburg doesn't have the pinches at the sides...
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Level 63
Aug 3, 2018
I was secondguessing my sanity when Melon didn't work for the Bowler. That's what it's called where I live (Melone actually, meaning melon).
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Level 83
Jun 6, 2020
Well, different languages exist. In the German version your answer would work
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2019
perhaps some leeway on the coonskin? I tried coon then raccoon then coonfur, raccoon fur, just fur, just animal.
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2019
Unfortunately.. tri-something didnt work..
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Level 89
Oct 12, 2019
This article https://collarclubldn.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/how-to-win-at-gentlemans-hats/ thinks that your fedora is a trilby. Who is right????? :-)
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2020
The article is wrong, the brim is way too big for a trilby. (It also looks almost exactly like the picture they have for fedora.)
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Level 64
Mar 27, 2020
I thought it was a porkpie hat
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Level 36
Jan 22, 2020
iLikHats
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2020
Why did Mahatma Gandhi not work? You should fit it.
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Level 89
Jan 15, 2022
Work for what? Because a Gandhi cap looks like this:

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Level 81
Jan 15, 2022
Just wanna say thank you for accepting "Stetson" as a type-in for "Cowboy"!!
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Level 76
Jan 15, 2022
for #6 sombrero, accept ‘tortilla chip and guac hat’? ;)
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Level 32
Jan 15, 2022
whaaaaaaat?
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Level 60
Jan 15, 2022
Are you sure that isn't a Trilby?? And I always called that one with the tail a Davy Crockett hat. No?
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Level 84
Jan 15, 2022
Agree that the brim is somewhat narrow for a fedora - but it's too wide to be a trilby. Also, a trilby would, or should, be noticeably turned down in the front.
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Level 54
Jan 16, 2022
Davy Crockett was known for wearing a coonskin cap, as was Daniel Boon, but I never heard the cap referred to anything other than "coonskin".
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Level 64
Jan 16, 2022
I agree with Rozzi; in the UK at least we call that a Davy Crockett hat
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Level 65
Jan 16, 2022
Fun how languages work. Sombrero in Spanish is generic for hat, so all the others would actually be some type of sombrero. Then some other language borrows the word and gives it some specificity it doesn't have originally.

I tried Mexican hat for that one, didn't work (that's how we actually call it in Spain).

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Level 73
Jan 17, 2022
Yeah! I was really surprised. They are all sombreros, it never occurred to me to write that.
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Level 67
Jan 16, 2022
"What's the name for a sailors cap?" Nope no idea

Doh

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Level 70
Jan 17, 2022
Please accept "Davy Crockett hat" for the coonskin cap. That's often what it's called!
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Level 71
Jan 17, 2022
that's what I tried and then I tried racoon hat .......... no go either.
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Level 47
Jan 17, 2022
Tried porkpie hat for the sailor's cap, and of course it was rejected. Another one of those words and terms that sows confusion between English speakers either side of the pond. In British usage a pork pie hat is the Royal Navy sailor's cap, in the US its something different.
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Level 74
Apr 13, 2022
Pickelhaube :(
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2023
No akubra 😥