Pilgrim Hat Costume Ideas

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About Pilgrim Hats

Every stylish Pilgrim who landed at Plymouth Rock had one. A wide-brimmed black hats with a prominent buckle on the front was all the rage to go with the simple black and white dress of the Puritan settlers who came to the New World from England. This type of hat is known as a "capotain." (Didn't think it had another, proper name besides "Pilgrim Hat," did ya?) This hat was very popular with both men and women in the 1500s and 1600s.

While women could wear this hat, many Puritan ladies chose to wear simple white bonnets to cover their heads.

Dressing up with a Pilgrim hat

The perfect compliment to a Pilgrim costume for a Thanksgiving play or a performance of Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," a Pilgrim hat is an absolute must! Gentlemen can wear the wide-brimmed style in all black with a buckle (one of the few adornments Puritans, with their spartan stylistic sensibilities, allowed) on the front. Ladies can wear a Pilgrim bonnet in all white to tie beneath their chin to accompany a demure settler's costume.

Ladies wishing to break free of the hum-drum hemlines of traditional Pilgrim costumes can shake things up a bit and (Plymouth) rock a Sexy Pilgrim costume, topped off with a mini Pilgrim hat for ladies, tilted at a seductive angle. Oooh, won't that council of Goodie-goodie goodwives be mad!!