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Charley Chase wearing an American straw hat (specifically a boater), 1926. A traditional Ukrainian straw hat. An ad for various styles of straw hats A straw cone hat worn by a Japanese buddhist monk
A straw hat is a wide-brimmed hat that is woven out of straw or straw-like synthetic materials. Straw hats are a type of sun hat designed to shade the head and face from direct sunlight, but are also used in fashion as a decorative element or a uniform.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “straw hat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.