Hat and Caps Fashion Trend and History.
Hat Fashion Trend and History Hats, any of the different styles of head dress. Hats can perform protective functions but indicate the wearer's sensitivity to fashion or the performance of formal functions, when they symbolize office or wearer status. Plant fiber caps are associated with ancient rural traditions of Europe and Anatolia. The earliest sculpture of Mercury shows his thin hanging straw hat. Classical Athenian and Roman artisans usually wore conical hats with oval-shaped crowns for sensual purposes. The material under the belt is formed at one edge. In Rome, the hat was a sign of the common class. Such a cover was given to a free slave. Upper class men usually go without a hat except in bad weather or while hunting or traveling. In his old age, Emperor Augustus Caesar established a new fashion by never going out without a hat. In Egypt, he wore hats and a simple handkerchief over his head and visor, and a cloth fell over his shoulders. Human hair or sheep's wool ...