English clothing

headwear usually tied under the chin and having a front brim

thumb|Young Woman with a White Coif by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541 A coif () is a close fitting cap worn by both men and women that covers the top, back, and sides of the head.

thumb|right|200px|A 19th-century shepherd in a smock-frock. Detail from Found by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1854. thumb|Old man wearing a smock and carrying a whip A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners. Today, the word smock refers to a loose overgarment worn to protect one's clothing, for instance by a painter.

fashion term

thumb|Poulaines worn in Burgundy near the end of their most fashionable period

right|thumb|Simple American bonnet or mobcap, in a portrait by Benjamin Greenleaf, 1805

right|thumb|150px|Woman in a Capotain by Nicholas Hilliard, 1602 A capotain, capatain, copotain, copintank or steeple hat is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical "sugarloaf" hat, usually black, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe. Earlier capotains had rounded crowns; later, the crown was flat at the top.

traditional rural attire in the UK

clothing of Anglo-Saxon England

English woman's headdress of the early 16th century