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A hat shaped like aspirin packaging, worn as if it were royalty's crown.

means A small, brimless hat with straight sides and a flat top, shaped like a cylindrical box, traditionally worn perched forward on the head.

from Named simply for its resemblance to the small cylindrical boxes once used to dispense pills — flat-topped, straight-sided, lidded containers that pharmacists and travelers carried. The hat style itself has military roots, echoing the stiff cylindrical caps worn in various 19th-century uniforms, before it crossed into civilian fashion and became a staple of mid-20th-century women's millinery, famously associated with Jacqueline Kennedy's understated, elegant styling.

iconic wearer
Jackie Kennedy made it a 1960s political fashion symbol
shape origin
named for resemblance to cylindrical medicine pill boxes
no brim
sits flat on the head, defying gravity and practicality
military roots
derived from British and French ceremonial soldier caps
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