What type of Hat is this?

[buler]

Jughead and Marty McFly (on hoverboard) collide.

B

 

[rlk]

The poles had a soft version...

You seem to have hit upon the answer. The y do seem to have a number of versions. Apparently used by Polish Lancers in Napoleons Forces.

Henryk Dabrowski

Napoleonic Polish Legions:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Legions_in_Italy

 

[Big_e]

Hey rlk, I do like any Napoleanic paintings and prints. Maybe it's a lancer garrison cap so's not to get the real helmet dirty? When I first saw that, I thought about a life sized chessboard like royalty used to play in the old days and maybe one of the human pieces wearing that hat to be in costume. A rook or fancy pawn?
Ernest

 

[Jeff M]

Variation of a Jester's hat?

 

[James71]

It looks very much like a piece of acedemic dress. The kind that was perhaps worn by the dean or senior lecturer in a european university.

 

[elvisroe]

It looks very much like a piece of acedemic dress. The kind that was perhaps worn by the dean or senior lecturer in a european university.

I reckon you're pretty close to the mark there!

 

[Hawkhat]

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