Show me owe the hat to aln we owe the hat to asia for it was la hat country that the art of felling wool was first known and from tl most remote periods the art was cir aled on by the orientals orient als in india china burma and felam hats arc made of straw of rattan 0 bamboo of pith of the leaf of the Tall port palm and of a large variety of th japanese made their hats of pa per the modern hat can be traced back to the peta worn by the an clant romans when on a journey and bats with brims were also used by the earlier greeks it was not until after the koman conquest that the use of bats began in england hatte of blever about the mid lie of the twelfth century was worn by one of too nobles of the imd describes hats and plumes which were worn at edwards court in 1340 the garter order was in the merchant in chaucer a canterbury jalcs had on his bead a bearer hat and from that period onward there la mention of felt battas |