Pudding hat

A pudding hat (also pudding or black pudding) was a protective hat worn by children learning to walk during the early 17th century until the late 18th century. It was the equivalent of a modern-day helmet.

A pudding hat was usually open at the top and featured a sausage-shaped bumper roll that circled the head like a crown. It was fastened with straps under the chin.

References

• Worrell, Estelle Ansley (1980). Children's Costume in America, 1607-1910. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 20,31. ISBN 978-0684166452. 

External links

• Pudding hat at the V&A Museum of Childhood