Peaked cap

The peaked cap, shield cap or plate cap ( in Austria ) is a form of headgear. It is a cap, which always carries an umbrella in the imaginary quarter-circle round the hat. It originated from the shako, a military headgear of the 19th century, by gradually reducing the Hutturmes.

The shield of the cap serves primarily to protect the eyes from the sunlight, but also of the face from the rain. The cap thus differs from a hat that shaded most other regions in the head as ears and neck.

Uniform

Caps are usually worn as a uniform standard part of the police, the military, firefighters, and seafaring. The basic form of the student and the student's cap is a cap.

The illustrated curved form of the German cap whose tip was in 1955 even increased again with the creation of the Bundeswehr, served as the model for the section of the service caps in many other countries, including the U.S. military and the police in Italy. The extremely broad Soviet plate cap has replaced the model of the Second World War, with its small plate. The Hungarian army traditionally uses a variant of the mountain cap with a very pronounced upward and forward tapered point.

Often the cap to affix the decorations that express the official rank of the wearer. The police-military designation of the cap in Germany 's service cap.

When the German army cap for members of the Army and Air Force no longer belongs in principle to the equipment set and there is only worn by Selbsteinkleidern or Teilselbsteinkleidern. For members of the Navy, the cap still belongs to the equipment set and there is still worn by officers and sergeants.

Civil

Ins Civil modified forms of the cap, the flat cap, the balloon hat that sailor's cap and the Prinz- Heinrich- cap. In the first half of the 19th century, the Biedermeier hat was popular. The baseball cap is now often worn instead of earlier in Germany and Austria widespread mountain cap.