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The hat of the royal musician (fig. i6), is shaped somewhat Hke 

 the official hat, but having a higher crown, and tassels of red silk 

 hanging from the sides and back. The projecting wings are square 

 at the extremities. This style of head-gear is worn only by the 

 royal band detailed to furnish music in the palace. 



The hat of the royal servant is of buckram, covered with brown 

 silk. It is most ingeniously folded flat, and when open assumes 

 the oblique outline shown in figure 17. This hat is worn with 

 a suit of the same color and a blue sash. 



The Korean is never hatless. When in the house his head is 

 covered with a gauze skull-cap (fig. 18), which is considered en 

 deshabille, only intimate friends seeing it worn, and to appear with 



Fig. 22. — a, Swordsman's hat (No. 202,879). b, Soldier's and constable's hat 



(No. 77,058). 



it on the street would be the height of impropriety. The house 

 hats are sometimes made in veritable nests, one over the other (fig. 

 19), varying in height, and in all of them the topknot can easily be 

 seen through the meshes of the hat. 



All of these hats are composed of bands of horse-hair, of different 

 heights, some wider at the top than at the bottom, some cylindrical, 

 others square in shape and nearly all open at the top. 



There are a number of military hats, indicating different branches 

 of the service, as shown in figures 20-23. The general's helmet (fig. 

 20), is a very elaborate affair, ornamented with brass dragons, 



