Gat (clothing)
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| Gat (clothing) | |
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| Hangul: |
갓
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| Revised Romanization: | gat |
| McCune-Reischauer: | kat |
A Gat[1] is a traditional article of Korean clothing. It is most commonly a cylindrical black hat worn by men, made from horsehair on a bamboo frame. It was worn to protect the topknot, which all Korean men wore prior to the late 19th century.
Under the Joseon Dynasty, black gats (heukrip) were restricted to men who had passed the gwageo examination. Commoners wore a variant called paeraengi which was woven from grass.[citation needed]
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