Talk:Asian conical hat

History
Where did the hat originate, is it from Vietnam, how many styles are there besides Nón lá (Vietnamese style) and how old is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.94.8.198 (talk) 01:13, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Cantonese
juk mo literally bamboo hat is perhaps how to say it in Cantonese the U would be a falling tone while the O would be a rising tone in comparison to Mandarin. I've posted it here because I am not sure, perhaps you can confirm it and add it to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.190.98 (talk) 18:56, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Notable examples in fiction
I removed this text:

Notable fictional character wearing it:
 * Kenny McCormick - in "Good Times With Weapons"
 * Akatsuki members - in Naruto

While I understand the reasons for inclusion, this kind of thing has caused difficulties in many articles. First, who decides what is 'notable', and second, the hat is so common that in time the fictional references may crowd out the factual ones, which is not desirable in an encyclopedia. - Mcasey666 20:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm interested in the aerodynamics of this hat. Specificalliy I wonder if the conical peak makes turbulence that would help counteract any airfoil effect tending to pull the hat off the wearer's head. P Goodwin

Picture Included In This Article
I believe that the main picture included in this article is a silly example that takes away from the seriousness of the article. Mainly the expression of the man's face is what I believe to portray the aforementioned silliness. I move for a replacement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)


 * I agree, but we would need a free-to-use image. I suspect that a wiki user took a picture of himself for that one. We'd need someone to take a less goofy picture. 151.197.27.164 00:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Derogatory Nature
Can anyone provide more information about the derogatory nature of this term? --Thomas B♘ talk 04:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Straw hat??
Each Asian country has its own peasant/manual worker hat, which is not necessarily either straw or conical. This article conflates a variety of styles together. For example, the sedge hat is typically Japanese and has a rounded top. "Coolie hat" and "straw hat" presumably refer to the Chinese worker hat. The pictures show Vietnamese leaf hats, which are made of palm leaf and have bamboo frameworks. Unlike the Japanese and Chinese hats, the Vietnamese hat is truly conical and has a point on top. Cambodia has its own hat style, so the picture of a Cambodian woman in a Vietnamese-style hat is misleading. Kauffner (talk) 12:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC)peason


 * Absolutely right. I just added an image that shows a plastic conical hat, very common now in China. Some have bamboo stays within, some don't, and some are all bamboo. I think we need to rename this article to East Asian conical hat or Conical hat (which is currently a disambiguation page). Pointy hat exists and is a short article with a silly name. I am not sure this article could fit in there because a conical hat isn't that pointy. Some suggestions would be welcome. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:04, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


 * If there are no objections soon, I will move this article to Conical hat. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * by all means. I can see how "conical hat" and "pointy hat" is going to have some overlap, but as you say not all conical hats are pointy, nor are all pointy hats conical. --dab (𒁳) 07:56, 27 May 2010 (UTC)


 * What would be perfect would be a catch-all article name with a bunch of sections for the different hats with a blurb and a { { main } } for each. Thoughts/suggestions for the article name? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:28, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:16, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Page move from Conical Asian hat to Rice Paddy Hat
On Oct 27, 2014 it was moved (with no discussion) from Conical Asian hat to Rice Paddy Hat. Both names are not great in my view.

The back-story: It started out as Conical hat, then was moved to Conical straw hat. In the post above, it was decided to move it to Conical Asian hat. Maybe there was not enough discussion back then.

Back to the present: So, thoughts on this new name? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:44, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the most widespread/popular name for this hat in the Western world is "coolie hat" and the term "coolie" is very contentious. "Rice paddy hat" is both awkward and has the same dodgy connotations. Mabalu (talk) 13:48, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. I do not know why the last page mover found "Conical Asian hat" offensive and racist. I can think of lots of unflattering adjectives for that name, but not those. Rice paddy hat, on the other hand, does seem somewhat offensive. Also, "rice paddy hat" is used for a rounded-top hat. About coolie hat, yes, it does appear to be the common English name. So, what now? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * IMO I think we can't mince around the fact that it IS called a "coolie hat" in the Western world. I can think of no alternative names that are as widely used. There are a lot of regional names but none that universally stick. This is a really sticky one. Mabalu (talk) 14:16, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I really don't want to sound like a racist-apologist but "coolie hat" IS a pretty widely known term for this style of hat. It is in a lot of 21st century dictionaries and encyclopaedias. The Museum of Victoria disclaims the term VERY nicely here while calling it a "conical hat" (which redirects to Pointed hat). It is still used quite a lot (usually in quotation marks) but clearly people can't think of an alternative term for it. Asian straw hat would seem to be a likely search term but this could describe so many other Asian hats made of straw. A google for that exact phrase does pull up quite a lot of "c****e hats" though, so maybe "Asian straw hat" would work as a title? Although many of these hats aren't made of straw. Mabalu (talk) 12:45, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm, tricky. There is clearly no good name. It is a lesser-of-evils thing. Here are the choices I see, and my views:


 * Asian straw hat - not all are straw
 * Conical Asian hat - not a bad choice
 * Conical hat - maybe the best choice with a hatnote to pointed hat (plus museumvictoria uses it)
 * Conical straw hat - not all are straw
 * Coolie hat - would be considered perjorative
 * Rice paddy hat - could be considered racist and too specific


 * So, I would go with Conical hat. Not perfect because it steps on the toes of pointed hat, but still best. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm happy with Conical hat too - maybe we should get it move-locked so that if anyone really has a problem with it they will have to discuss it on the talk page rather than moving it to problematic pages like rice paddy hat? (Edited to add - I think "Conical Asian hat" is probably best for the main title with "conical hat" as a redirect.) Mabalu (talk) 11:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi, Mabalu. Okay! I think that is best too. That is actually how it was a few days ago, and what I moved it to last time. (I see the discussion above ended with me saying "... I will move this article to Conical hat..." and then a couple of days later moving it to Conical Asian hat. I should have announced my intention and given time for others to respond. But, I was young and foolish then.)


 * Anyway, so yes, back to Conical Asian hat it is. Should we give it a couple of weeks and then move it in case others want to say something? Should we immediately and temporarily move it to Rice paddy hat with lower case P? Should we immediately move it to Conical Asian hat as WP:BRD? After all, Rice paddy hat is sort of racist in itself, plus the last mover and also the person who took part in the 2010 discussion have been invited to take part in this discussion on 27 October 2014 and haven't. (I am in favour of the immediate move to Conical Asian hat and be done with it.) Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:27, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe ask for thoughts on some relevant wikiprojects before doing so? Not that anyone will probably notice or bother, but at least we tried. Mabalu (talk) 10:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Good plan. Like project fashion? Maybe not that. I'll post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Asia. I already posted at Talk:Hat a few days ago. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:23, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the user didn't like the word order "Conical Asian" and what it could imply, but I'm just guessing. Anyway, since these names are descriptive... why not "Asian conical hat" as title?--Cold Season (talk) 03:48, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Asian conical hat is FANTASTIC! Good thought about the word order. Maybe add a redirect from Conical hat (Asian) too? Mabalu (talk) 09:53, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * A search will find the target, plus we will retain Conical Asian hat. However, there is no harm in making the redirect Conical hat Asian. Making Conical hat (Asian) would be subject to deletion as implausible under WP:R3.  Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:29, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. Thank you for the good suggestion, Cold Season. Although the other way around seems to be the best word order, this way unambiguously refers to hat being conical. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:29, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Follow-up
I moved it to Asian conical hat. Although only six days has passed, I think it unlikely that someone will come along with a better name. Plus, this thread was well-advertised. Finally, the last name was improperly capitalized and somewhat racial, so it would have been a bad idea to wait for too long. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

I'm just going to say: it is appalling that anybody in the 21st century thinks it appropriate for this page to be called "Asian conical hat" (which is not only 'racial', but vehemently racist.)Hendrick 99 (talk) 13:25, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * But how? It is Asian and conical and a hat. English longbow is English and long and a bow. French onion soup is French and made of onion and soup. Are those racist too? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:31, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, the word "paddy" is a racist term for Irishmen. Just saying. Mabalu (talk) 14:00, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Seriously though, I'm boggled by this too. Everyone knows what this hat is, but none of the terms for it are really appropriate or likely search terms. It is not solely worn in the paddy fields. It actually seems quite derogatory to imply this hat is something that is only worn by a specific type of labourer, when it is a style of hat that is widely worn. Not everyone who wears the hat is a rice paddy worker. Although widely appropriated around the world, this hat has still retained its associations with its cultural origins. As Anna Frodesiak points out, it is conical, and Asian, and a hat. That is descriptive and while not perfect, it at least gives the basic facts about the headgear and acknowledges its origins. Technically, it probably should be "East Asian conical hat" but that's not a likely search term. We need a term that covers all the potential search terms (such as nón lá) and also gives the most comprehensive cover-all term for the hat, and although Asian conical hat is far from perfect, it is factual without having pejorative/classist/prejudiced associations upfront. I don't even see it as racist, but clearly at least one person thinks that using the term "Asian" to acknowledge the hat's geographical origins is "vehemently" racist, despite thinking it acceptable to rename the article something that sounds pejorative, classist and prejudiced - a hat-trick! Maybe we should just call it Hat that must not be named. Mabalu (talk) 14:29, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The problem is that "Asian" is inherently ambiguous. The bamboo conical hat is only relevant to a section of Asia. An "Asian Conical Hat" would not be analogous to an "English Longbow" because one contains a national descriptor while the other is continental. Asians outside of the Sinosphere don't have any connection to this item. I suggest renaming as simply as the "conical bamboo hat" or something similar, as that is its literal name in the areas where it is relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yprpyqp (talk • contribs) 06:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd wager a vanishingly small percentage of people who wear baseball caps actually play baseball, but there's no problem with that name… Atario (talk) 03:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Processes of making
It would be fantastic if the article has a section about the processes of making one conical hat. Like how many things does a person need to prepare to make and how long does it take her to finish one hat? Thank you! CATHERINevO (talk) 15:50, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Rename this article "Nón lá" or provide alternative examples
Every image is a nón lá. If you must, put nón lá in a section with other hat varieties.

121.45.171.107 (talk) 19:32, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Gallery section
In the first photo, the porter, I can't see a hat. I keep trying to find a hat, but I just can't find it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.32.16.183 (talk) 10:58, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

'Spanish military uniforms in the Philippines 1862'
The caption to this illustration, in reference to the native inspired salakot concludes with the sentence

"This later evolved to the colonial pattern pith helmet via the British Empire in India."

This assertion should be amended, given that the date of the illustration is 1862 and helmets to provide sun protection had been in evidence in British India for at least the previous twenty years. Moreover, the Colonial Pattern sun helmet alluded to had an entirely different form to the headgear illustrated and was made of either wicker or cork. JF42 (talk) 20:25, 9 July 2021 (UTC)