Richard in a Hat

This metal conical hat or Jingasa is a mix of fantasy and fact. The feudal Japanese foot soldiers wore for battle what is called a Ji...

This is another Chinese novelty hat. Looking through the odd hat book or two and websites, I can't really find anything histor...

A simple straw hat. This hat is a typical Asian farmers Coolie Hat, Rice Paddy hat, Non-la, used as an evaporation cooling device w...

The Vietnamese conical rice farmers hat or Non La can be made of straw, palm leaves, bamboo or matting. What makes the Vietnamese...

This conical bamboo hat has a nice pointy shape. Bamboo hats of this style are designed to protect the head and face of farm workers...

The Basotho Hat is the traditional hat of Losotho a country totally surrounded by South Africa, known as the Kindom of the Sky since its al...

This is a joke shop Chinese hat based on the conical coolie hat. The shape is authentic, but the rest as far as can tell is pure fa...

This oriental/asian hat is a kind of rice paddy/coolie hat, however they normally go to a point on the top, so I guess this is more like t...