I had to wear it in Vietnam when I was doing construction as a volunteer. It protects so well form the sun.

Every time I finish watching one of your videos I think to my self: "Well, that's it he's done every hat." And then next week there is a new video and I think: "How did I forgot that hat exists. Its so iconic." Repeat.

My family is Mexican-American, however my aunt would wear a conical hat when doing yard work!

As a Chinese Canadian, this is the very first time I saw of one of those in a KZfaq video without any ill intention behind it. Love your channel, keep up the good work buddy!

Eloquent, fluent, articulate. As usual.

In the 1970 film M*A*S*H, the native "Koreans" were deliberately dressed as Vietnamese to associate the film with the contemporaneous Vietnam War, not because the filmmakers were completely ignorant of Korean culture.

Also now in Vietnam they are a very popular tourist souvenir. Often they are painted with colorful decorations. They are a brilliant design that protects from the intense sunlight and the heavy rain ☔️

A friend told me also that can protect you from some littles snakes who can fall down on your head from the trees. Because of the shape of this hat, the snake slide on it and fall down farest.

I’m living in Vietnam 🇻🇳 now and people wear them all the time. Especially working people outside and farmers in the rice fields

In Vietnamese they called it "Nón Lá" which lit. mean " leaf hat"

That hat has an excellent, functional design. The way it holds the hat above the head so air circulates between the two makes it far better in high heat than any other design. I own one, and the only disadvantage it has is that it easily gets caught by the wind. You must keep it tied on at all times. I have never worn it in rain. Mine does not look water proof, but if it was, it would be even better.

You should set up a gallery (IRL or online) displaying all these weird and wonderful things we put on our heads. Chapeau!

Thank you for covering the conical hat. I have a non la which I mainly use when mowing the lawn or doing yard work in the summer when it’s not windy. I don’t want to nitpick but the more artsy and painted hats sometimes have plastic covering to cover the Hat to protect the art,same can go for traditional ones it’s up to the wearer. It’s not a practical hat for everyday but working in open area in the heat it does the job.

I became happy when philippines was mentioned cuz i was from there

I'd be interested in covering some customs and etiquette associated with hats. For instance, when you "tip my hat to you", where does that come from? Why is it good manners to take off our hat when we enter a building or at the dinner table?

It would have been interesting to see the internal structure of this hat.

Your Cantonese wasn't too bad. Perfectly understandable, if stilted.

I came here to learn about the rice hat so that I could accurately use it in a punchline in one of my raps. Now, my inner nerd has a large appreciation for this video, and a deeper knowledge of the history of this hat. Awesome presentation!! You are clearly very passionate about what you do.

Love your videos hat historian, I’ve been learning a lot about headgears throughout history thanks to you, but I see you’ve rarely talked about native Italian hats such as the Alpini hat or the Bersaglieri hat. I’d love to see a video by you about hats of the Italian Risorgimento. 😊

Very practical for tropical sun and monsoon rains.

Woah this is a great channel idea! Pretty niche but very educational and fun

I'm sure the cultural appropriation people are screaming right now. As an Asian, I think it's awesome you cover this hat. I'm always curious how things were developed and why things came to be part of a culture. Keep up the great work! It's greatly appreciated!

You are my new favourite channel! I am a absolute hat freak, with some hundred plus ones in my collection from around the world, and I wear a different hat literally every day (sometimes two). I have found actual research and info sparse and so your work could not be more appreciated! I will now binge your whole Chanel. Thank you and I hope you will keep up the good work.

And another close call on the hat tipping. Still didn't miss, though

In the Philippines, most ethnic groups have their own variations of the hat, with different names as well. In Tagalog region where I live, we call it salakot, but it is further distinguished into several types depending on the shape. The ones I've gathered were "humhom" (the stereotypical conical hat), "pinawikan" (slightly rounded hat without a point), while "sawing" and "takukoy" were both wide and flat but abruptly becomes pointed towards the center, it is also only used by women according to the salakot hat maker that I conversed with. All of these types can also be "initlog", which means instead of having the typical circular shape, they are slightly elongated, and "malapad" which means it's wider than the usual. Inside the hat is the "baat", which is some sort of crown where the head is fitted, it's a weaved rattan. Another component is the "buklod" which are rattan rings attached together, it serves as the chin chord. Other regions also have their own styles, but I don't know much about it.

I was waiting for this since i see it on the shako video. Thank you very much and alway love your channel. I am guessing next is the bicycle helmet. L'amour du Vietnam.

The ancient Greeks and Romans had similar straw hats - you can see them on the “classical” Tanagra figurines. Brilliant design really.

Knowledge is power! Thank you for your posts!

I haven't been to Vietnam in years, but my hat has done its great duty protecting me from the Sun to this day Great video!

Quite the niche content you've hung your hat on, very enjoyable and interesting for the most part and always well researched.

very interesting. thank you very much ✌

There are various names for that hat in the philippines but in filipino, we call it *"salakot"* and in our place which speaks cebuano, we call it *"purong"*

the starting is quite nice XD you pronounce it correctly

Very interesting ! 👏

Bought one off the jungle website many years ago. Wear it when mowing the yard (few acres).

😮these are my FAVORITE hats!!

Thank you!

What a practical hat. Wish I saw it being worn more.

I live in Vietnam. Lots of people wear these hats all the time

At the very end when you "tipped your hat to us," you looked sweaty!! It looks like you released this video 1e September 2023, so may have recorded during the summer, but dang, well done, "getting into character" by filming the video about a hot, humid climate's hat, IN a hot and humid experience! Next-level video making 💪

I love these hats, but I have found it nearly impossible to find one for sale in person with the inner skull frame. I even tried in Taiwan with no luck.

Would you make a video on the turban too? It's technically not a hat, but close enough... The one thing I've noticed is that Europeans will always associate it with Indians and Muslims, but the one they'll use in art and movies is mostly worn by Sikhs... However, the Shemagh may be worn like a turban and in Europe, we had the Chaperone, which could be worn like one... Not to forget the Fez and some helmets that had a band wrapped around them...

bought a Made in Vietnam one in S. Korea Summer 1987 & brought it back to college in Seattle... also a "disposable" ₩100 monsoon umbrella -- trasparent blue sheet plastic over bamboo frame -- traditional furling mechanism & all !! used it as a lampshade until 1999 -- N0 Clue where the hat went (never wore it; only hung it on the wall)

Hey Ho! These hats also make fine carrying baskets

another great video as usual i don't know if you saw my reply on my last comment on the sombrero video but the hat I'm planning to make a video on is the gebirgsjäger hat i seen one in the background of some of your videos it's going to take a while to make it because i want it to be a animated video so I'm trying to learn how to animate first and i plan on making the video about the whole uniform not just the hat i do own a official military gebirgsjäger hat from 1975 i just want it to be animated it's more fun that way for me

I always wanted a conical hat growing up, but my Dad said that it would trigger my Uncle's PTSD from him serving in Vietnam.

Une vidéo sur les différentes casquettes allemandes de la ww2 ?

I brought one back for my mother on my trip from Vietnam as a joke. She actually wears it gardening because it protects so well from the sun and doesn't weigh much.

Ooh, for one of your next hat can you do...uh... That Confucian rectangular mortar board with tassels?

Also used widely in Indonesia, worn by the likes of farmers to street workers. Definitely rarer to see nowadays, but I still see local street cleaners wear it everyday. It's called as Caping (soft C like the cha in "char"), the conical shape is the default one but other kinds of straw/bamboo/grass hats would colloquially be called Caping + a unique name (usually the tribe/place the hat is known for); for example, there's Caping Buyuk with a flat top not too dissimilar from Thailand's Ngob hat. I didn't know it have that kind of baggage in the west, but as a South East Asian it's a very nostalgic hat personally.

You should do one of these on the Mao cap

Ashigaru hat in Shogun II Total War. Japanese musketeer hat in Age of Empires III

It is worth noting that very similar hats were developed independently in late medieval Europe as well. While researching medieval straw hats, I've encountered images of hats just like the ones described in the video, or at least similar. It shows that if something is a good design, it is bound to be reinvented multiple times! If anyone wants to find those images, try and look in a manuscript labelled as BNF Latin 9333 Tacuinum sanitatis. It has many illustrations portraying everyday life in late medieval Germany, as well as some of the images of the straw hats I mentioned.

Hola soy fan desde chile yo tambien tengo una colección de sombreros, as el del gorro de mapache o coonskin cap saludos desde chile

Can you do the history of KNIL's bamboo hat next?

In Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, we have a traditional hat belonging to Malay tribal groups, standing high on the head, looking like the tip of a classic pen. It is made of cloth. You have not discussed this in your video. Moreover, we have the "peci" or "kopiah", a black Malay hat.

Isn't it obvious how infinitely practical such a hat would be,especially for who predominately wore them? It's a cultural thing,so the people it is indigenous to should be proud to wear it,as people in the U.S.A. wear cowboy hats.

There’s a structure underneath it? Like a sort of cylinder to rest it on the head?

fun fact the language he spoke was cantonese spoken in south china

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I think that currently the most AWESOME hat in the movies is the extremely large straw hat that is seen worn by the villain(s) in the 1986 movie Big Trouble in Little China staring Kurt Russell. Could you do an episode on it? Have you done any polls to see what hats people like the most in movies?

Similar hats are worn in west Africa; thereto rice is grown. The people of West Africa, enslaved in the American south, were selected for their rice cultivating skills. Considering that trade routes existed between Africa and Asia for millennia, I wonder if there’s a relationship.

It would seem most straw hats started as baskets. Carrying goods on ones head is common across many cultures and in one direction or the other the basket was likely empty and probably fairly protective.

my daughter wears a 'weimao' which is a similar to this, much wider and flatter, sometimes with a conical shape, other times a flat disc sitting on the head with a hole opening leaving the top of the head bare, often worn with a long veil, developed in the Tang dynasty, you'll find this in many Chinese dramas as well as many video games and animations. It's quite popular with younger people in the hanfu revival movement.

I love being educated about cultural aspects. At least I will not offend now.

In Bengal it was used by farmers as we. ❤ Watched from Noakhali, Bangladesh 🇧🇩

Ilike asian conical hat in Indonesia conical hat Asian name is topi caping

How abouut one on the Trilby?

In Siberia in winter I wear ushanka, but in summer I wear this conical hat from China, because the weather changes from -40 to +40 degrees by Celsius

There are two similar-looking Viet letters: "D" (pronounced like an English "Y") and "Đ" (pronounced like an English "D"). The traditional áo dài (5:51), the Viet ladies' slit-dress with long loose pants underneath, has the "D" with no stroke so it's pronounced "Oww Yai", not "Oww Dai". Confused? That's good. It was your countryman that gave us the confusing Vietnamese alphabet :D

Your strap doesn’t look right. They usually have something like a ribbon strap

Interesting that you have a Missouri flag

I have always wondered if the asian conical hat is connected to the Wok, the asian conical cooking utensil...

he was sweating in rain making this video while wearing the very same hat

I most associate this hat with Vietnam. But, I do know countries nearby wear it too. My ancestors are quite a long ways away, they would wear animal fur as a coat; But, headwear was for protecting against the cold. Yes, we lived in more hilly & / or mountainous areas.

More a caricature than a reality, at least in China, where this kind of hat is mostly made for the tourists. There are straw hats in China but generally not of this shape, which is much more typical of Vietnam. But stereotypes are often very resistant and hard to fight... By the way, it seems the few words you said to introduce this new episode sound like cantonese, or I'm wrong (I speak Pekinese mandarin, and I didn't understood well, so I guess it was cantonese 😂) ?

I can tell, the hat you have is a different version of the Vietnamese "Non La". The Non La is very light, yet it protects you from the rain as well as the scorching sun. It also help beautiful young girls to hide their faces from hungry young men as a fashion called "mac co", or being shy. It adds another hidden beauty to the girls. As I can recall, the Non La would last only a season or two at most. But it's cheap to replace. Vietnamese rarely leave their houses without it. The next time you visit Vietnam, if you're lucky enought to encounter a lady trying to hide her face from the Non La, you must check her out. She could be a knocker in waiting.

common sight in the fields of Thailand. I keep trying to get one, but my head is too big.

Sad they threw away my collection of such hats, which included variations of our people's own salakót as well as a few from elsewhere.

I have seen very similar hats in Philippines and Indonesia.

Do a video on Turban.

This hat would be perfect for northern europe (like Scotland where I live) .. a shame it would be considered ridiculous/eccentric.

As a Floridian who goes to Disney World, specifically EPCOT, I kinda cringe when I see these hats in the park. It just doesn't feel right...but after watching this video...even if those who purchase don't understand its history...it's ok =)

In fact, the most stereotypical hat that associated with ethinic Han Chinese male throughout many centuries before the Manchu rule was the "Futou"(or Putou), a kind of scarf worn by common peasants that was usually black. To the extend that the design of the hat in the costume of the emperor and most of the Chinese official hats were based on it. Sadly it was all being discarded by the Manchu rulers in the 17th century.

It have a lot of version of asians conical hats you forgot one used by Chinese farmers tea productor

Actually, it is not of Vietnamese origin. The conical hat can be found in Java, Sumatra and most Indonesian islands which are not influenced by Chinese or Vietnamese culture. That hat is specifically used in paddy fields to protect you from the sun heat. The Javanese conical hat can be 80 cm in diameter to a metre so the shade can cover not only your face but also your upper body.

I love this hat. To me, it looks elegant and chic, as well as being very practical shielding the face from the Sun. Although it may/might be construed as being politically incorrect and/or racially insensitive for a blonde caucasian woman to wear this hat, I'd feel very honoured to do so.

... Pourquoi les Chasseurs Alpins Italiens portent un Chapeau de type tyrolien avec une plume d'aigle sur le côté ...??? 🤔🇮🇹🌿

Dude you could have gotten a more gangsta hat than that ! My Grandma gots you beat she has the super size hat.

Obviously the Viet legends refers to extraterrestrial visitation, the hat shape inspired by a UFO.

Do a Qing Dynasty warm hat（暖帽）

Welcome to the rice fields!

What I wonder about is why India, the country knows pouring rain too has never developed a had cover like that.

Also common in Peru

I always associated it with Viet Nam

It works great at the beach, not so much on a construction site.

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It's a far superior design vs. the pith helmet. It's lighter, covers more area, and much better ventilation. Also cheaper to make. I've worn both and there's no question which one is better, even if the pith helmet does look more handsome. I guess the Europeans didn't wear it because it would have made them look too much like the local Asians that they looked down upon...

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