- Cossack (Hat) : Cossack also known as Cossack Cap or Cossack Hat refers to a cap adapted from the cap worn by Russian Cossacks. It is often made with fur or felt. Cossack Hat is wider at the Top than at t he head size.
It is a style in the 1980's made up in Persian lamb and fur fabric for women. A winter hat for men worn at an angle with a center identation.
Russian Cossacks are members of a people of southern European Russia and adjacent parts of Asia, noted as cavalrymen especially during Czarist times.
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Authors' Note: Some old, rich people in some cities in Germany still wear this kind of hat easpecially during winter. I have seen some of them and I am glad I owned one, a gift from my fashionable and stylist German mother-in-law