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The habara is a woman's silk outdoor garment worn in north Africa.
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Habutai is a soft type of silk originally made in Japan, and also called Japanese silk and Jap Silk.
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A hacking jacket is type of jacket worn when horse riding. It is a fitted, single-breasted jacket which is flared from the waist and has a single back vent. Originally developed during the 19th century, the hacking jacket became fashionable in the late 20th century for general wear, not just horse riding.
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Hair-cloth is cloth made wholly or partly from hair, usually horse's hair, and formerly used as a covering for furniture and to make penance shirts.
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Hair-powder was a preparation of pulverized starch and some perfume, formerly much used to whiten the head. Sometimes the powder was coloured. The custom of wearing it was introduced from France into England in the reign of Charles II. To make the powder hold, the hair was usually greased with pomade. Since the late 19th century it has been scarcely seen except on the heads of footmen in attendance on people of rank or wealth.
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A hakama is a Japanese garment like flowing trousers, worn by kendoka, and dating to the Samurai period. The trousers were worn belted over the kimono.
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Halberjects or haubergets was a thick, coarse cloth used for making the habits worn by monks.
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A half hat is a woman's hat which only covers part of the head. Typically it is worn at the back of the head, held in place by hat pins, and decorated with feathers and flowers over a silk or fur base.
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A half redingote was a woman's lightweight overcoat with a fitted bodice worn for riding and sometimes travelling during the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain. It was open from the waist to the hem, and buttoned from the waist up.
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A half slip is a women's underskirt hanging from the waist, without an upper half.
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In dress-making, a halter neck is a high panel at the front of a dress or blouse which is tied around the back of the neck, leaving the back and shoulders of the wearer exposed.
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The handkerchief dress was a style of dress popular during the 1880's. It comprised a long, ankle-length tunic dress of large square pieces of fabric reaching from the waist to the ankles, with deep borders, trimmed to match the main dress. The handkerchief dress enabled the wearer great movement without revealing the legs underneath.
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A handkerchief skirt is a women's skirt comprising a large square of material with a circle cut in the middle, the waistband being attached to the hole so that the skirt hangs with the square's points hanging down.
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The handlebar moustache is a style of moustache with protruding, upturned ends resembling the handlebars of a bicycle. Handlebar moustaches were popular among the members of the RAF during the Second World War.
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Formerly in British costume, the hanger was the fringed loop or strap hung to the girdle by which the dagger was suspended.
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The haori is a Japanese, loose, knee-length coat with long sleeves.
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Harem pants were a lady's attire of the early 20th century consisting of an ankle-length skirt or trousers which were pleated, had an elasticated waist and gathered into a band at the ankle, reminiscent of the trousers worn by Turkish women. Harem pants were usually made from a silk fabric.
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A haremor or bubble skirt is a women's skirt based upon Turkish trousers, flaring from the waist and tapering to the hem which has a band to restrict movement.
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A harlot was a type of pointed boot or shoe worn in the 14th century.
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Harris tweed is a soft, thick, tweed originally made by hand from wool and dyed with vegetable dyes on the Scottish islands of the Outer Hebrides. Harris tweed was exported to mainland Britain during the 1840s and used to make coats, jackets and suits for both men and women.
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A hat is an outdoor covering for the head of various shapes and materials (as felt, silk, wool, straw), but having a brim as its most distinctive and general feature. Hats are of ancient origin. Among the Greeks, for instance, the petasos was worn, which had a brim, and was similar to the round felt worn during the 19th century.
The shape of the hat has varied extremely in Europe at different periods. The dress hat or silk hat with a smooth nap outside was the most important form of this article at the start of the 20th century, though felt hats were perhaps in more general wear.
The silk hat was invented at Florence about 1760. The manufacture, however, did not make much progress until 1828. Up to and even after this time beaver fur was the chief material for hats. A. silk hat was composed of a skeleton, to which the silk plush was glued. The skeleton, consisting of three parts, the cylindrical part or body, the crown, and the brim, was usually made of linen, covered with gum-lac, and to the cylindrical part the crown was gummed. The cylindrical part was made by gumming together the edges of a piece of cloth shaped on a cylinder. The brim was composed of superposed layers of stiffer cloth, and made with a flat projecting surface round its inner edge, which was gummed to the skeleton. For covering the hat a sort of hood of silk plush was made, cut across in an oblique line. This cover was drawn over the skeleton on the block, and fitted exactly to it by the application of a hot iron. The heat of the iron melted the gum-lac, which on cooling cemented the covering to the skeleton. The edges of the oblique cut were also coated with gum-lac. The hat was finally shaped on the block or form, and the plush damped and polished, while the hat revolved on a turning-lathe.
In the manufacture of traditional straw hats the straw commonly used is that of wheat or barley. The best comes from Italy, and particularly from Tuscany, but straw hats are also largely made in England. Palm-leaf hats were imported from China and elsewhere, and were also machine-made in the United States from the 19th century.
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The havelock (named after General Sir Henry Havelock) is a light covering for the head and neck, worn as a protection against sunstroke.
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An Hawaiian shirt (aloha shirt) is a man's oversized shirt printed with brightly coloured designs of fruit, flowers, exotic birds and dancing girls. They were made popular during the 1950s by American tourists returning with them from Hawaii.
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A hayk is a piece of rectangular, usually striped, cloth, about 5.5 meters in length worn wrapped around the head and over the clothes by some Arab men.
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A headrail was an Anglo-Saxon head covering consisting of a piece of fabric draped over the head and held in place by a head band, similar to a short wimple.
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A headscarf is a square piece of fabric, folded into a triangle and worn over the head and tied under the chin. They are traditionally a rural garment, but became popular as part of the folklore and peasant fashion trends of the 1970s.
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A heart-breaker was a loose ringlet of hair worn over the shoulder.
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A helmet, an article of armour for the protection of the head, traditionally composed of leather or of metals, in modern times more usually made of synthetic compositie materials. Some of Homer's heroes are represented as wearing brazen helmets, with towering crests. Among the Romans the cassis was a metallic helmet; the galea, a leathern one. The earlier Greek and Roman helmets did not protect the face. During the middle ages helmets were made of steel, frequently inlaid with gold, and provided with bars and flaps to cover the face in battle and to allow of being opened at other times. The full-barred helmet entirely covered the head, face, and neck, having in front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer might see the objects around him.
The open helmet covered only the head, ears, and neck, leaving the face unguarded. Some open helmets had a bar or bars from the forehead to the chin, to guard against the transverse cut of a broadsword. The standard modern military helmets afford no protection for the face, though later riot helmets are provided with a clear platic visor protecting the face while still affording visibility. Firemen used to wear an ornate, heavy headpiece of leather and brass, or other materials, to protect them as far as possible from falling ruins at conflagrations. Helmets of white felt, with folds of linen wrapped round them, were worn in India and other hot climates as a protection against the sun. The name helmet is also given to a kind of hat worn by some policemen.
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A Henley shirt is a men's woven fabric, short-sleeved shirt with a button placket and a crew neck.
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The hennin was a cornet head-dress in the form of an elongated cone hung with elaborately arranged veils and worn by women in 15th century England.
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A hessian-boot was a kind of tasselled top-boot, first worn by Hessian troops and then popular and fashionable during the early 19th century. They were first introduced into the USA from Germany in 1776, being brought by arriving Hessian troops.
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A heuk was an outer garment or mantle worn by European women in the 14th century and later by men.
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A heuke was a rectangular woman's cloak worn draped over the head and shoulders and held in place by a hat. Heuke were worn in Holland during the late 16th century, and also in other parts of Europe and the Far East.
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A highwayman coat is a long overcoat with a stand-up collar and drapes from the shoulder to above the waist. The highwayman coat became popular as a child's overcoat in Britain at the close of the 19th century, and was typically produced in a bottle green or claret red colour broadcloth with a black, velvet collar.
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An himation was an ancient Greek woollen cloak-like garment consisting of a length of fabric draped around the body, one end pulled from the back over the left shoulder, the remainder pulled across the right side of the body and carried across the chest.
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Hipster is a style of skirt or trousers cut to fit snugly around the hips rather than the waist. They were first introduced in the 1960s and are often held in place by a large, wide belt passing through belt loops at the waist.
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A hobble skirt is a very narrow, tapered skirt with a hem just below the knee or at the ankle that restricts the wearer's ability to take anything other than very short steps.
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A hogger was a footless stocking formerly worn by coal miners while at work.
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A hoike is a man's cape, open on one side and fastened on the shoulder by buttons or hooks.
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A homburg is a man's hat of soft felt with a tapered, dented crown and a stiff upturned brim and a ribbon band. They were first worn in Homburg, Prussia.
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Hosiery is a general term for all kinds of knitted articles, including drawers, petticoats, night-dresses, etc, and fancy articles such as head-dresses, hoods, shawls, neckerchiefs, watch-guards, cravats, etc. The materials traditionally used for the purpose were cotton, linen, and wool, the last of which was sometimes mixed with cotton or silk. Silk was also frequently used alone. Now man made fabrics and cotton are typically used. Nearly all articles of hosiery, except some fancy articles, have been made by a knitting-frame of some kind or other since about 1900.
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Hot pants are very brief, tight shorts.
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The Howie moustache is a style of tapering moustache with turned up, curved ends.
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A huarache is a shoe made from interwove leather thongs. Balmoral Shoe
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Huckaback is a very coarse species of linen fabric formerly used to make face towelling as it is very soft and absorbent.
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A huipil was a loose, straight-cut, sleeveless blouse or dress with holes for the head and arms, worn by the Mayan peasants with a matching straight skirt.
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A hula skirt is a traditional Hawaiian grass skirt worn by both men and women while performing the hula dance.
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A humeral is a cape or covering for the shoulders. In ecclesiastical rituals, the humeral veil was a silk vestment of a rectangular shape, worn over the shoulders during various ceremonies, also covering the hands when the officiating priest held the sacred vessels. The humeral veil was also worn by the Jewish priest on the shoulders, and was fastened to the breastplate.
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A hunting-watch is a watch with a metallic cover over the glass for its protection.
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