A Woman's Hat Research Paper

The woman's hat may have its origin with a head wrap or pointed cap as documented in Neolithic cave paintings at Tassili, Algeria and later Mesopotamian sculptures.
Etiquette and formality have played their part in hat wearing. Because of modesty and religious reasons stemming from Saint Paul's admonition to the Corinthians that women must cover their hair while praying, wealthy Christian women in the Middle Ages wore draped veils, hoods, or wimples indoors and practical wide-brimmed hats over the wimple for traveling. Peasants wore wide hats over skullcaps or hoods while working in the fields. At the turn of the 20th century in 1900, both men and women changed their hats dependant on their activity, but for many ladies of some social standing it would be several times a day.
Etiquette articles suggest that it would be A disgraceful act to venture out of the house without a hat or even gloves. In the Edwardian age it did not matter if you were poor or rich, old or a child, whatever the status a person wore a hat, only beggars went bareheaded. Even militant suffragettes did not campaign without a hat. The hat would be fairly functional in style and form, but a hat was still worn.

Uniforms were everywhere as women did jobs once done by men and every job had a distinct uniform. Before the Great War being in service as servants was the usual employment for most women as housemaids, cooks or seamstresses. Choice had opened up in the last two decades and slowly some had become shop workers at the new emerging department stores and the more technically minded had become stenographers or telephonists. Women began to seriously participate in sports and needed clothes to move