Straw hat

A straw hat is one that is frequently used for sun protection, hat of woven straw. For both women and men, this hat in different shapes, colors, sizes and types of straw is available. The straw hat is perhaps is one of the oldest, most commonly used in Africa, Asia and Europe headgear, whose shape also in the centuries partly hardly changed. So he formed the traditional headdress of the tribe of the Saxons in the 10th century.

A arisen in the 1920s men's fashion was the small round Florentine straw hat, who was also called circular saw because of its circular shape. Because of its origin from the sailors he was in the English room also Boater, called in French boater or matelote. He belonged to both the complete Sunday features the perfect gentleman, as well as the accessory at balls and dances. He is still frequently used headgear for U.S. barbershop ensembles. Do not confuse this with the picture hat straw hat for ladies, a flat, broad-brimmed hat, the mid-19th century as a summer hat was popular.

Lindenberg im Allgäu was until 1945 the center of the German straw hat industry, 1913 was there, the annual output is over 5 million pieces.

In Lower Saxony twist rings, located southwest of Bremen, there was until the beginning of the 20th century a thriving straw industry, consisting of the remains today. The local museum of straw processing documents the history and development of this industry from its beginnings to the present. There also the largest straw hat in the world can be admired, who entered the Guinness Book of Records with a diameter of about 5.5 meters; It is a hat of type circular saw twenty times magnification.

In Panama, the Pintao is worn as a traditional straw hat.