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	Bonnet (headgear) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bonnet is a kind of headgear which is usually brimless.
		Bonnets remained one of the most common types of headgear worn by women throughout most of the 19th century.
		Bonnets worn by men and boys are generally distinguished from hats by being soft and having no brim - this usage is now rare (they would normally be called caps today) although the word has been preserved in the military glengarry bonnet for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonnet_(headgear) (763 words)

	Headgear
		Headgear can have great symbolic significance: in a monarchy, for example, royalty often have special crowns.
		Bonnets, as worn by women, were generally brimless hats worn outdoors which were secured by tying under the chin, and which covered no part of the forehead.
		Bonnets worn by men and boys are generally distinguished from hats by being soft and having no brim - this usage is now rare (they would normally be called caps today).
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/he/headgear.html (871 words)

	Bonnet House
		In 1740 Bonnet communicated to the academy of sciences a paper containing a series of experiments establishing what is now termed parthenogenesis in aphides or tree-lice, which obtained for him the honour of being admitted a corresponding member of the academy.
		Bonnets worn by women and girls were generally brimless headcoverings which were secured by tying under the chin, and which covered no part of the forehead.
		Bonnets were one of the most common types of headgear worn by women throughout most of the 19th century.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/23/bonnet-house.html (1296 words)

	Unravel the Gavel
		Naturally the bonnets and hats from the early days of our history are rare, and those few that have been preserved are mostly in museums.
		The collector needs to examine the materials used in the construction of the bonnet and the trim, but many bonnets were re-trimmed by their owners or the owner’s milliner to ‘‘freshen’’ them.
		Bonnets that had extended past the face now retreated to about the middle of the head which allowed a clearer view of the face, and the front of the hair to show.
	www.thegavel.net /bonnets.html (2155 words)

	1870's Straw Bonnet
		The hat or bonnet had to be either tipped forward in front of the mass of elaborately styled false hair that was commonly worn in excessively complicated styles, or to be clamped on behind all that regalia in whatever position could be managed.
		Bonnets were often decked with bows, feathers, flowers, ribbons, lace, jewels, enameled insects, and even dead birds.
		When you decorate the top of the bonnet, you may either hide this ribbon under the decorations or allow it to show as a part of the trimming.
	home.mindspring.com /~78rpm/id3.html (1319 words)

	Spirits
		A major symbol of chieftaincy is this bonnet ornamented with leopard claws.
		The Kikongo word for bonnet, mpu, comes from the Portuguese word for hat, but similar headgear was already worn by Kongo kings in the 1400s.
		Mpu came to mean not only the bonnet but the chiefship itself, thought of as a specific force not unlike that which empowered an nkisi, or power figure.
	www.nmafa.si.edu /exhibits/spirits/konbon.htm (92 words)

	Remembering the Future
		A bonnet with a lace on the border.
		The bonnet descended from the “Maria Stuart bonnet”.
		In 1793, the rich decorated bonnets were noticed in the meetings that were held against luxurious life; the conclusion was that women were allowed to wear bonnets if the decoration was made without gold and silver threads and embroidery.
	www.uiah.fi /virtu/materiaalit/refu/370.html (962 words)

	Cimbric caps and bonnets
		The Cimbric tribe is best known from the reports of the romans, and all they say about their headgear is a short note from Plutarch: "The riders were wearing helmets, that were like the mouths of horrible beasts of prey, and many other strange shapes.
		Apart from the bonnet, the woman also was equipped with a couple of woollen mats.
		The technique of sprang, used for making the bonnet, is a special kind of knotting or braiding resulting in a very open and elastic textile (figs.
	home3.inet.tele.dk /evakoch/huer-uk.htm (1491 words)

	Scottish Glossary by Ed Kirkland
		The "Balmoral" bonnet and the "Glengarry" bonnet are equally correct.
		The chief's eldest son or heir presumptive is also considered to be a chieftain and in the major clans, all the chiefs' sons may be considered to be chieftains.
		A chieftain of a clan is entitled to wear two eagle's feathers in his bonnet badge.
	www.geocities.com /kirkland2001/scottish-glossary.htm (1750 words)

	bonnet - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Typical Renaissance headgear for men included the soft, flat caps called Tudor bonnets.
		A prevalent symbol of Native Americans through modern times is the eagle-feather headdress, more commonly known as the war bonnet.
		Bluebonnet, small annual of the pea family found in the southwestern part of the United States.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /bonnet.html (169 words)

	Architecturals.net - Online Architectural Antique Market
		By the nineteenth century, women were eager to free themselves of bonnet strings, and declare their right for equality with men.
		Hatpins were developed in response to the dictates of fashion as women dawned big hair and fanciful headgear replacing the more functional bonnet used by their predecessors.
		Created to secure the headgear, hatpins made their first popular appearance in the 19th century and soon became a universal fashion statement.
	www.architecturals.net /tip.cfm?articleID=3075 (277 words)

	Timeline
		Poke bonnets of Leghorn, rice straw, or silk were de rigeur for outdoor wear in the summer; velvet and satin were used in the winter.
		Bonnets and caps covered most of the sides of women's heads, with bonnet brims almost meeting beneath the chin.
		Hats and bonnets from this time on would have delighted the heart of the taxidermist, as they sported dead birds, insects, and (so Eliza Lynn Linton claimed) reptiles, in addition to the more usual artificial fruits and flowers.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~ulrich/19cdress/timeline.htm (3972 words)

	Vintage Fashion Guild - The History of Women's Hats
		Collapsible bonnets, they were made of strips of wood or whalebone sewn into channels of a silk hood.
		Simple cotton house bonnets ornamented with a separate ribbon became fashionable for all echelons of society.
		Bonnet board was also a response to lack of trade goods from Napoleon’s Italy, the traditional source for quality straw bonnets.
	www.vintagefashionguild.org /content/view/604/75 (1701 words)

	Matron's Bonnet - Corsets & Crinolines UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This style of bonnet was popular with married, middle aged ladies, who would have been used to wearing bonnets as young women in the 1860's.
		This bonnet is made out of fl straw with a silk/cotton blend lining on the inside.
		The somber nature of the bonnet, along with the shiny jet beads, leads me to believe it may have been a bonnet for the later stages of mourning.
	www.corsetsandcrinolines.com /timelineitem.php?index=188014 (212 words)

	Bonnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up bonnet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		war bonnet, a feathered headgear worn as military decoration by Plains Indians
		feather bonnet, a feathered headgear once worn by Scottish regiments
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonnet (126 words)

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		The early bonnet was much thicker than the modern beret, whereas the tam-o-shanter is a bonnet with a pom-pon on the top and is often favored by modern Scots units.
		The bonnet appeared in military uniforms at least as early as the English Civil Wars, being noted at the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644.
		Officially adopted in 1924, the new British fl Beret was a compromise between the "skimpy" beret of the Basque peasant and the "sloppy" beret of the French Chausseurs Alpins.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/mil_hist_inst/u/unform5.asc (1273 words)

	History Of The Uniform
		It took almost two years to standardise Salvation Army uniform, but by the beginning of 1880 a standard navy blue serge uniform was introduced for both men and women.
		Their headgear was a military cap with a red band, on which the words The Salvation Army had been worked in gold letters.
		Cheap, durable, protective and solidly unworldly, the bonnet with its red, band and huge ribbon bow became a well known symbol of The Great Salvation War.
	www1.salvationarmy.org /heritage.nsf/0/4c3fc447c2a9d1fd802568cd0036e695?OpenDocument (549 words)

	The Army Black Beret
		This ban was reversed on 25 September 1961 by DA Message 578636, which authorized the green beret as the official Army headgear to be worn by Special Forces.
		The regiment selected the headgear for its practicality--brimless for use with armored vehicle fire control sights and fl to hide grease stains.
		In addition, after HQDA encouraged the unofficial use of morale-enhancing headgear in 1973, airborne forces chose to wear the maroon international parachute beret until CSA Rogers' ban of all such unofficial headgear in 1979.
	www.army.mil /features/beret/beret.htm (5760 words)

	International Heritage Centre: Uniform
		Commissioner Richard Wilson, who was by trade a milliner) and another cadet were set to work to trim bonnets for the ten cadets who were then in the home-the trimmings were a plain pleated band of fl silk placed round the crown, and fl strings.
		Booth met them and explained how important it was that Salvationists should wear headgear that was neat and distinct from mere worldly fashion they accepted them.
		By September regulation bonnets trimmed with fl silk, like for privates or officers, were advertised for sale-at 6s.
	www2.salvationarmy.org.uk /uki/www_uki_ihc.nsf/vw-sublinks/D4EC84AC5360F3C48025707B0038E08A?openDocument (795 words)

	Re: A head full of bees
		An idea buzzes around your brain the way a bee buzzes around, and your bonnet (hat) is a metaphor for your head..
		Anyone who has had a bee caught in his beekeeper's bonnet or his hair or any kind of headgear knows that the experience will quickly make him act rather daft.
		An earlier related expression was 'to have your head full of bees.' In that form the expression appears as early as 1513.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/22/messages/842.html (277 words)

	Childrens Patterns
		Based on original 18th century directions, this pattern is appropriate for 1775 to 1800 although similar cap and bonnets were used earlier.
		In The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London of 1774, two women “were indicted for stealing…one fl silk bonnet, value 4 s.
		Along with a concise history of infants clothing, this is a complete pattern which includes shirt, bedgown (two styles), robe blanket, frock, cap and under cap, girl's cap, and boy's or night cap.
	wmboothdraper.com /Patterns/childrens_patterns.htm (358 words)

	Slit-Gongs and Musical Oracles
		Bweni is a symbol of authority among land chiefs: the more important the status, the more elaborate the bonnet.
		The headgear is thus employed as a symbol of the diviner's status and authority in the society.
		Devisch extends the visual significance of the form of the slit-gong by noting the female genital connotation in the opening of the slit-gong into which the phallic drum stick is placed at a slant.
	www.amherst.edu /~jpemberton/p3.html (959 words)

	Global Imports MINI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Twin white bonnet stripes with fl rule spice up the front end styling on any MINI Cooper, giving it a distinctively race-inspired look.
		White bonnet stripes with fl rule spice up the front end styling on any MINI Cooper S, giving it a distinctively race-inspired look.
		Black bonnet stripes with white rule spice up the front end styling on any MINI Cooper, giving it a distinctively race-inspired look.
	www.parts.com /partlocator/index.cfm?action=accessoryPart5&siteid=214180&catalogid=3751&categoryID=75813 (1384 words)

	Recreating 16th and 17th Century Clothing: The Renaissance Tailor
		As an example, if you were to create a flat cap (bonnet!), you obviously got your ideas for it from somewhere.
		A common piece of headgear from the mid to late 16th century.
		Mostly, flat caps (bonnets!) appear to be decorative, except in the lower classes, where they appear to function to keep the sun off the head.
	www.vertetsable.com /research_docuphobia.htm (1438 words)

	German Helmet - Free Information
		Examples are the feathered war bonnet of the native american, the peacock feathers of the manchu, the eastern turban, the turkish fez, the cardinal's hat, the nun's coif and veil, the marriage crowns, the judge's wig, the academic motorcycle cap, and many others.
		Headgear prevents collisions with pedestrians, animals, fixed objects such as a tree, pole, bridge, dropped load, or parked vehicle, and includes non-collisions such as a roll-over.
		In two-, four-, or six-cylinder engines, cylinders may also be positioned horizontally opposite one another.
	www.wholesalemotorcyclehelmets.com /German-Helmeto.html (306 words)

	RDMA Pipes & Drums Dress Miscellaneous
		Headgear Ribbons: After ironing, you can keep headgear ribbons crease free by keeping them pressed between two pieces of cardboard (clipped together) during transit.
		D/M Kieran Boyle notes that hanging the bonnet upside down in a closed bathroom while running a hot shower for about 20 minutes (but don't let the bonnet get wet) and then blow drying will result in a fluffy bonnet.
		Also consider that if you are wearing a uniform of a certain regiment, be sure to wear the uniform correctly as you are representing the regiment.
	www.drummajor.net /Pipes/Dress/1PipesDressMisc.htm (1426 words)

	Veil - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For centuries, non-Muslim women have also worn veils similar to the sheer boushiya mentioned above, but only under certain circumstances.
		Sometimes a veil of this type was draped over and pinned to the bonnet or hat of a woman in mourning, especially at the funeral and during the period of "high mourning".
		They would also have been used, as an alternative to a mask, as a simple method of hiding the identity of a woman who was travelling to meet a lover, or doing anything she didn't want other people to find out about.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Veil (831 words)

	Timeless Stitches/Bonnets, Hats, & Crochet Day Caps Etc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Timeless Stitches Bonnets are designed and made just like the actual bonnets of the time.
		If you do not want a bonnet that losses it shape when it rains then you came to the right place.
		Most of our bonnets are made on order so the customer gets what they want.
	www.tstitches.com /store/Bonnets.htm (125 words)

	Kilts, Highland Dress wear by TartanWeb kiltmakers.
		The round knitted bonnet illustrated here - the "blue" bonnet - is the traditional Scottish headgear; originally it was worn flat and had no ribbons, but nothing is forever...
		This was before the days of the "short back and sides" so the solution was to add ribbons to his bonnet so that his hair could be tied back.
		The blue bonnet is made without a cockade which was introduced to distinguish friend from foe during the Jacobite uprising.
	www.tartanweb.com /bonnets.htm (579 words)

	Discovering Dickens - A Community Reading Project
		The red cap worn by Defarge is the so-called “Phrygian cap”; worn by French patriots during the Revolution.
		Note too how the Jacobin Brethren are mounting new Symbolical headgear: the Woolen Cap or Night-cap, bonnet de laine, better known as bonnet rouge, the colour being red.
		The red Phrygian cap, or bonnet rouge, was a soft one, made of wool, with the peak bent over at the top.
	dickens.stanford.edu /tale/issue10_gloss.html (961 words)

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