A Thebes tomb painting depicts one of the first pictorials of a hat . The painting shows a man wearing a conical straw hat. Structured hats for women began to be worn in the late 16th century.

Hieu, who was taught how to make conical hats by her parents, said green leaves must be put in the sun for days to let them dry out and take on a light straw color. They are ironed with a heated tool ...

The earliest pictorial depiction of hats in the world is in a tomb painting from Thebes, Egypt, which shows a man wearing a conical straw hat, dated to around 3,200 BC.

The stranger handed him a conical straw hat. There was a baby inside. The man said he had found the little girl clutching a dead woman, still trying to nurse. "I can't go on any longer," he said.

SAN FRANCISCO - There are two Chinatowns in San Francisco: one where tourists can buy conical straw hats and tacky souvenirs, and a second where the locals live, shop and eat.

Clad in gay robes and conical straw hats, hard-riding Basuto tribesmen last week poured into their hilltop capital of Maseru. The joyous occasion: the royal marriage in the Roman Catholic ...