Since there are many different styles, usages, and making ways of hats. Therefore, there are many different ways to sort hat styles. According to the different sorted ways, there are different names for hat styles. Here, we will sort hat styles by their use purposes.

1. Working Hats

Working hats protect workers’ heads when they are working and can improve working efficiency. Also, can be professional identification and decorate the whole overall look to some degree. For example, polices wear police caps when working. Besides the safety function, the main function is professional identification. Architectural workers wear safe caps when working to protect their heads in case of an item falling from a high place hurts their heads. There are more professional identification hats, such as fireman caps, doctor hats, nurse caps, diving hats, etc.

Safe Hats

This yellow hat is a classic safe hat for lumberjacks. This kind of hard hat is usually made from hard plastic. In general, designed with ear muffs, which can reduce noise effectively to protect workers’ audiology. This is a professional design hat.

Nurse Hats

A Nurse hat is also called a swallow-tailed cap. This type of hat is with professional identification and also can fix hair and keep it hygienic. There are many different colors and styles for nurse caps to differ from nurses’ qualifications and positions. For example, white nurse caps are for medicine and surgery; pink nurse caps are for pediatrics; green nurse caps are for the emergency department and outpatient department; blue nurse caps are for operating rooms and ICU. All these colors are convenient for patients to identify the nurses.

Chef Hats

What are chef hats? Chef hats are a professional identification for chiefs. Also with fixing hair and keeping it hygienic. For the more experienced and higher level chef, the chef hat will be higher. Chef hats are brimless hats with clear identification for chefs.

Police Caps

What’s a police cap? Police caps are worn by police when they are working with identified functions. There are some common police caps, such as men’s wide-brim police caps, women’s roll-up brim police caps, men’s wide-brim traffic police caps, women’s roll-up brim traffic police caps, training caps, headgear, berets, etc.

2. Sports Caps

Sports caps are designed to protect the head when sporting. There are many sports caps, such as swimming caps for swimming, shooting caps for shooting, riding helmets for riding horses, and climbing caps for climbing.

Riding Helmets

What’s a riding helmet? Riding helmets are worn to keep their heads when people are riding horses. Enjoy horse riding and keep your head safe.

Swimming Caps

Most swimming caps are made with rubber, which is elastic and sticks closely to the head. Nowadays, there are swimming caps that are made from knitted fabric. The cost of this kind of swimming cap is relatively low, and it doesn’t tighten the head. There are many styles, patterns, and colors for choosing from. Swimming caps can protect the swimmer from eardrum shock and also can protect the head of the swimmer. Also, can reduce the impairment of hair and decrease the resistance when swimming.

3. Casual Caps

Casual caps are the most frequent use hats in daily life. In general, in order to prevent sunlight, wind, and cold, it’s usual to match a cap with the whole outfit for fashion during casual entertainment or going out. According to different occasions, environments, or weather, there are different choices, such as visor caps, ascot caps, berets, ushankas, etc.

Ushankas

Ushanka is a great cap to keep the wearer warm in excellent condition, and it’s mostly worn by men. There is a trifold design on the crown, putting down the ear-covering flaps that can cover the ears, neck, and back of the head. In addition, some northern military uses this kind of cap – Ushanka with a great anti-cold function in the cold.

Duck-Tongue Caps

The duck-tongue cap was first worn by hunters for hunting, therefore buck-tongue caps are also called hunting caps. There are two types of brims for duck-tongue caps: flat-brim or curved-brim. Also, two kinds of tops: rounded-top and flat-top. Due to the simple styles, and rich colors, duck-tongue caps are common to match daily wear. It’s also a single fashion item for young people to pair with casual or leisure clothes and also can protect sun protection.

Sun Hats

What’s a sun hat? Sun hats are featured with wide and slopping-down brims. Therefore, sun hats can provide ample sun protection, which has people’s preference in the summer season. Sun hats are also foldable and colorful, and there are many materials that can be chosen from. It’s a very convenient and portable hat, in addition, it’s suitable for all ages, the old or the young.

Finally, we introduce 3 types of hats according to the use purposes: working hats, sports caps, and sun hats. After knowing all these caps, you can choose what you need. Here, we will keep publishing more articles about hats. If you’re interested, please save our website to your bookmark, and we will launch our new products on. Aung Crown is a professional hat maker founded in 1998. You can trust and try.