Calotte (Belgium)

The calotte is a net-like cover made ​​of woolen or silken cords, which was provided with the help of embroidery, among other things with gold and pearls.

The calotte envelops the hair for nearly a whole. You came at the end of the 15th century along with the cap to allow the many times as a dinner plate sitting on one side of the head cap attachment. Since about 1550, they came back out of fashion.

The gold and silver calotte should have under the imperial order of 1530 only princes and the nobility.

Later was understood calotte only the skullcap of the Catholic clergy, then the dunce cap.

Since the end of the 19th century, Belgium has a student's cap called calotte or toque, which is supported by students of Catholic Universities ( and colleges ).

• Headgear