French & Indian war Headgears

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French & Indian war

Headgears

 

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Blank Hat

Silk sweat band

Tri-corn

Tri-corn with gold trime

Tri-corn with white trime

Workmans hat

 

Headgears

In the 18th century, head gear was important not only to identify your social rank but also for some very practical reasons such as keeping the lice away or for some people, keeping those same lice for themselves.

In most of the 18th century paintings and plates, people were wearing headgear 90% of the time "except native American Indians". Coureur des bois and Militiamen were wearing "tuques and scarfs", crafts people and some merchants were wearing workman hats and the upper class were wearing tricorns more or less decorated, according to their social rank.

At the end of the last quarter of the 18th century, lain style was very extravagant and the wigs were more and more voluminous, but even then tricorns were popular. Men were still carrying them, but instead of wearing them on their head, they would carry them under their arms: "some originals in Europe museums showed traces of weariness" on the top and sides of the crown but are nearly perfectly mint inside" proof of this way of style.

In French the word "tricorn", meaning tricorne, did not exist until the _____. Before that, we called it a "chapeau" which means a hat, but in the last quarter of the 18th century, another kind of hat did it's appearance, it was the "Bicorne". So then and only then we started to use the word tricorn to designate a hat that has a 3 point edge to distinguish it from its new rival. The bicornes, holding their name for the fact they had 2 pointed edges. The round flat hat that we can fold, 1 side up is called "____ " and in English a _____. This kind of hat was in use in the ____. A lot of the originals were made out of beaver felt and some of wool felt, but never the less, the tricorn is a hat that is a very expensive piece of garment and is not worn for every day tasks, nor to be worn by a craftsman during the practice of his craft but he could wear out of his store leaving his workmen hat behind and of course he would wear his fancy hat at the church.
In ______ a French priest complained that his subjects should present themselves in their Sunday clothes "that means in the proper and nice clothes and wear a tricorn (chapeau) if they had one.

What about straw tricorns? Are they real or not? We do not have a lot of illustrations showing "peasants or other people" wearing straw tricorns. Some of the illustrations show them very small and it is difficult to judge the headgear with certainty. I know as a fact that we can document peasants in the fields of Europe wearing flat straw hats, workman hat or bareheaded. Let me remind you that ________ a Jesuit in New France was complaining about his peasants working in the field with only a shirt, and nothing else.

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Blank Hat

Name: Blank Hat
Type: Headgears
Price: 35$ USD
35$ CAD

Blank Hat

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Blank hats are one of our popular items because you can personalize your hats when you do it yourself. High quality blank felt hat makes it easy to do it yourself and you can give it the angles of your time period: F&I, rev. war or whatever you want it to look like.

Blank hats are made out of 100% wool felt and are already pre-formed (crown) and block. They are lined with a sweatband inside, made of 100% cotton. It's not only more accurate but also much more confortable.

Size : French Sizing, Englan, American

Small : 56 cm, 6 7/8, 7
Medium : 58 cm, 7 1/8, 7¼
Large : 60 cm, 7 3/8, 7 ½
X-Large : 62 cm, 7 5/8 inches, 7 3/4
XX-Large : 63,5 cm, 7 3/4, 7 7/8

Colors : Black
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Silk sweat band

Name: Silk sweat band
Type: Headgears
Price: 15$ USD
15$ CAD

Silk sweat band

As we told told you before almost everybody had a head gear, but miliciamen had a preference for the "tuque" or a scarf. It could be in cotton or in silk because this was a relatively small piece of material and it wasn't a very prominent place, they would invest a little to show off or to look like if they could afford it. When the scarf was not worn on the head it was worn around the neck.

Note that 18th century fencers used to wear a lot of very lightwoven silk scarf around the wrists and at the knees. This would have different purposes: protect this area form sharp blades intended to cut and harm the fencer. Secondly a very tight woven silk could deflect a blade coming from a too prononced angle and thirdly, that I personally use and like when I fence, the extra loose fabric gives a very annoying movement, sometimes provoked by the wind, sometimes by your own mouvements. A very small change of the position may deflect the rays of the sun on the scarf and your opponent can lose concentration. By the way I started fencing four years ago and would be delighted to practice with any 18Th century fencer. But please, i'm still a beginner...

Colors : Black, Dark Blue, Sky Blue, Dark Green, Yellow, Orange, Bourgondy, Red
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Tri-corn

Name: Tri-corn
Type: Headgears
Price: 40$ USD
40$ CAD

Others models
- with white trime
- with gold trime

Tri-corn
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Most of the originals that I have seen were made with a small perfectly round crown and the edges were quite large. A French ordonnance requires an edge of 4" min. The inside of the originals are 90% of the time fully lined with a cotton or linen lining. Formed by one piece or two pieces, the tricorn is lined with ½ cotton; ½ linen band that can be adjusted with a small cotton lace. The sides are sewn in the middle at 3 different spots to offer a solid hat. The felt is of a highest quality and is thicker then usual.

Tri-corns can be made plane, with gold trim or with white trim.

Size : French Sizing, Englan, American

Small : 56 cm, 6 7/8, 7
Medium : 58 cm, 7 1/8, 7¼
Large : 60 cm, 7 3/8, 7 ½
X-Large : 62 cm, 7 5/8 inches, 7 3/4
XX-Large : 63,5 cm, 7 3/4, 7 7/8

Colors : Black
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Tri-corn with gold trime

Name: Tri-corn with gold trime
Type: Headgears
Price: 50$ USD
50$ CAD

Others models
- tri-corn
- with white trime

Tri-corn with gold trime
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Due to the cost of shipping a tricorn, we won't send only this item in an order. You need at least one more item with a value of 45$ or over. Thanks for your understanding.
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As you probably know, in the 18th century, the military personnel had a major influence on fashion. Wealthy people would buy a commission for their son and sent them a few years in service. So most officers were indeed young rich men. Them and their family's had great influence in society and were going in most formal events. These young officers would show up in their upper class military uniforms loaded whith gold lacing, everybody wanted to look like those proud educated persons.
So, the civilians that could offer themselves some metallic lacing would put some on, and because the tri-corn is so much exposed to the eye level, it would be the best place to expose your wealth. You have to remember that everybody in the 18th century wanted to look like the king or is court, but there were so many military and official titles around the king showing off, that fashion evolved very rapidly.

Size : French Sizing, Englan, American

Small : 56 cm, 6 7/8, 7
Medium : 58 cm, 7 1/8, 7¼
Large : 60 cm, 7 3/8, 7 ½
X-Large : 62 cm, 7 5/8 inches, 7 3/4
XX-Large : 63,5 cm, 7 3/4, 7 7/8

Colors : Black
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Tri-corn with white trime

Name: Tri-corn with white trime
Type: Headgears
Price: 50$ USD
50$ CAD

Others models
- tri-corn
- with gold trime

Tri-corn with white trime
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**************** NOTICE **************** ****************************************
Due to the cost of shipping a tricorn, we won't send only this item in an order. You need at least one more item with a value of 45$ or over. Thanks for your understanding.
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As you probably know, in the 18th century, the military personnel had a major influence on fashion. Wealthy people would buy a commission for their son and sent them a few years in service. So most officers were indeed young rich men. Them and their family's had great influence in society and were going in most formal events. These young officers would show up in their upper class military uniforms loaded whit gold lacing, everybody wanted to look like those proud educated persons.
So, the civilians that could offer themselves some metallic lacing would put some on, and because the tri-corn is so much exposed to the eye level, it would be the best place to expose your wealth. You have to remember that everybody in they 18th century wanted to look like the king or is court, but they were so many military and official titles around the king showing off, that fashion evolved rapidly.

Size : French Sizing, Englan, American

Small : 56 cm, 6 7/8, 7
Medium : 58 cm, 7 1/8, 7¼
Large : 60 cm, 7 3/8, 7 ½
X-Large : 62 cm, 7 5/8 inches, 7 3/4
XX-Large : 63,5 cm, 7 3/4, 7 7/8

Colors : Black
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Workmans hat

Name: Workmans hat
Type: Headgears
Price: 10$ USD
10$ CAD

Workmans hat

An other popular hat is the workman hat.
Sometimes it was even worn under the tricorn. It was made out of some small pieces of material not necessarily scrap or left over. Just like the women bonnets, the men could afford a more fancy piece of material because of the size of the garment, so we could have a very fancy material that would be worn in predominance and made a middle class man look a little richer or at least show that he had good taste in material. We see a lot of these workman caps in "Diderot Encyclopedia" and Europeen paintings but we don't see as much of them in French Colonial paintings. I am sure they were used, but maybe not as much as the tuques, scarf or other head gear in New France. We do see them in some English colonial paintings.

Size : S,M,L,XL

Colors : The colors varies, they are made with left over of material so tell us what type of colors you'd like and i'll tell you what i have.
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