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 ...

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.