Bicorne

A cocked hat (also two-master, monkshood or Napoleon hat ) is a hat where the brim is set up so that the formation of two peaks. He was both a top forward and a backward ( Wellingtonhut ), as well as worn across ( Napoleon hat ). Cross bars: Napoleon Bonaparte or to date of the heaters of the Spanish Riding School. It is also an oblique wear.

Created this hat shape is probably around 1790 as a military headdress for officers, where they replaced the tricorn mainly used in the 18th century.

From the 1790s until the first half of the 19th century, the bifurcated occurs ( student cap ) as a student festive headgear in appearance. From about 1810, he is up in the middle of the 19th century only sporadically as festive decorations of the Chairman (see Senior) of compounds in use students ( chapeau d' honneur ).

Today, this headgear is rarely worn, by, among other things:

• Officers of the British Army of the Great Uniform
• Members of the Guardia Civil and the Carabinieri to the Great Uniform
• Pallbearers
• Members of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna
• Students of the École polytechnique to the Great Uniform
• Members of the Académie française during ceremonies
• Diplomats of various countries to diplomats Uniform
• Commander, commander staff members of the Swedish Army
• Music Director of the Swedish Army
• Chamberlains and court officials of the Swedish Royal Court