Aesthetic hats and helmet thread

*zing*

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Steel hats and steel skullcaps worn under the fancy hats of the modern period were a common thing.

A steel skullcap worn under the wide brimmed hats of the day makes perfect sense. Commissioning a special wide brimmed fashionable armoured hat makes a lot less sense. I love the uniforms the Royalists wore in our civil war, and just find that particular pic amusing.

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It makes a shit load of sense if you are forced to show up at social events in "civilian" clothes, that have the chance of turning deadly.
Wearing armor was ok in the field, but looked down upon at gatherings of high society, so one way the people of the modern period dealt with that was commissioning armor that looked like civilian clothes.
The difference between a high culture and a low culture is that the high culture is able to hide a lot of functional things behind fashionable decoration.
Thick voluminous clothes give protection against blows from meele attacks and the leather buff coat gives cut resistance, basically a highly advance form of the same protection that the medieval gambeson gives.
The hat in combination with the hairstyle and wigs of the time is also a type of head protection.

wie verstrahlt muss man sein?

They're great, its like a modern deerstalker that isn't full retard.

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Versteh ich auch nicht. Die Bärenfotze ist hässslich wie der Spieß bei Nacht.
Aber warm ist sie.

But why wear it to combat?

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