This fabulous illustration of a Wheel of Fortune appeared on the front of a 1467 edition of De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (The Fates of Famous Men) by Giovanni Boccaccio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Casibus_Virorum_Illustrium
and shows women in hennins, the tall pointy hats fashionable in France in the middle of the 15th century. You can see that women used to shave their hair so none was visible and the hats were decorated with a small loop of cord on the forehead. It is apparently unknown whether the veil was attached to the top of the hat, or wound around the hair and threaded though a hole in the top.
