mixture of rabbit fur, measures 20% inches in diam- 

 eter with a crown 5 inches high. The edges are bound 

 with black siili % of an inch wide and there are round 

 2/2 inch black silk cockades on two sides. The rather 

 deep sweatband is of glazed cotton fitted with a draw- 

 string. Although the three sides are well stitched up. 



Figure 2. — Pettibone Tnconi, ca. 1776. 



of particular interest is the two-strand cotton string 

 band about the crown indicating its quasi-civilian char- 

 acter as a plain round black hat worn with the sides 

 down. 



As the 18th century passed gradual changes were 

 made : in British regiments the rear fold rising in con- 

 trast to the front corner, so that by 1800-1810 the hat 

 had become two-cornered, or a bicorn, variously called 

 throughout its further evolution during the next 40-odd 

 years a "cocked" hat, a "chapeau," "chapeau bras," 

 and "chapeau de bras." It was worn at right angles to 

 the bridge of the nose, at a 45 degree angle, or directly 

 fore and aft.^ 



Uniform regulations of the Army approved 30 Jan- 

 uary 1787 prescribed for officers and for enlisted men 

 of the infantry and artillery "hats cocked," with "white 

 trimmings" for the former, "yellow trimmings" for the 

 latter, cockades "black leather, round, with points, four 

 inches diameter . . . the feathers to rise six inches 

 above the brim of the hat." " The feathers for the artil- 

 lery were to be black with red tops, and those for the 



Figure 3. — Pettibone Triconi, ca. 1776. 

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