{"id":2215,"date":"2012-10-25T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2014-08-06T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:33:53","slug":"whats-that-on-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/whats-that-on-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s that on your head?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things you can wear on your head &#8211; other than just hair!\u00a0 (Side note: In English we don\u2019t usually say that a person \u201cwears\u201d hair on their head, it is better to say a person \u201chas\u201d hair on their head.)\u00a0 This post is all about the different types of things people put on their heads.\u00a0 If you can think of head coverings that I have not put on the list please add them to this list by making a comment to this post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>hat <\/strong>\u2013 a general term used for any shaped covering of the head<\/p>\n<p><strong>wig<\/strong> &#8211; a covering for the head made of real or artificial hair, usually worn by people who have lost their real hair<br \/>\n<strong>toupee<\/strong> &#8211; a small wig or hairpiece worn by men to cover a bald spot<br \/>\n<strong>baseball cap<\/strong> &#8211; a close-fitting hat with a bill that extends out over the face, originally worn by baseball player to help keep the sun out of their eyes<br \/>\n<strong>balaclava <\/strong>or<strong> ski mask<\/strong> \u2013 this is a hat that covers the whole head, exposing only the upper part of the face and eyes<br \/>\n<strong>beret<\/strong> \u2013 a soft round cap hat with a bulging flat crown and a tight fitted headband traditionally associated with France but also used by people in the military around the world<br \/>\n<strong>fedora<\/strong> &#8211; a soft felt hat with a medium brim and lengthwise crease in the top<br \/>\n<strong>hard hat <\/strong>or<strong> helmet<\/strong> \u2013 a round hard plastic hat with a small brim usually used in construction areas to protect the head from injury by falling objects<br \/>\n<strong>party hat<\/strong> \u2013 a cone shaped hat, usually made of paper and brightly decorated, worn by people at parties<br \/>\n<strong>sombrero<\/strong> \u2013 a Mexican hat with a very wide round brim that is shaped a bit like a saucer<br \/>\n<strong>top hat<\/strong> \u2013 a tall, flat-topped round hat, often black, traditionally worn by wealthy men in the 19th and 20th centuries<br \/>\n<strong>veil<\/strong> \u2013 a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face and head<br \/>\n<strong>yamaka<\/strong> \u2013 a small round cap worn on the top of the head traditionally by Jewish men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"284\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2012\/09\/hats.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>There are so many things you can wear on your head &#8211; other than just hair!\u00a0 (Side note: In English we don\u2019t usually say that a person \u201cwears\u201d hair on their head, it is better to say a person \u201chas\u201d hair on their head.)\u00a0 This post is all about the different types of things people&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/whats-that-on-your-head\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[135370],"tags":[219085,9327,219087],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-vocabulary","tag-hat","tag-hats","tag-head-coverings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}