Bigouden Coiffe, Brittany, France

Women of the Ar Vro Vigoudenn folk troupe march in towering lace coiffes at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in 2009. The Bigouden coiffe comes from the Pays Bigouden in southwest Finistère, and it is the most dramatic of Brittany's many regional caps: a small embroidered cap in the 1800s, it climbed through the twentieth century until ceremonial versions stood more than 30 centimeters tall. Today it appears at festivals, parades and Breton folk dance performances.