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Exactly what it says--a cap. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, with apologies to Stefan, if that's a cap, what's this?

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Not quite, let me give you a clue:

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Good you have found that pic. It shows the local traditional dress of Volendam, which stood model for that completely fictional thing called "national dress". There's a specific art to stiffening the lace only mastered by a handfull of women these days. It is called a "hul". Here's a pic I took a few years ago.

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Ulysses S. Grant at Lookout Mountain, TN, 1863. General J. A. Rawlins (seated by tree) with General Webster standing immediately behind; Colonel Clark B. Lagow (leaning against tree with field glasses), & Colonel William S. Hillyer (seated in foreground); unidentified orderly waits up the path.

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