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* A '''[[wikipedia:Chefchr(27)s uniform|chef hat]]''' (more properly, ''[[Gratuitous French|toque blanche]]'') means you know your way around the kitchen, and you've got the credentials to prove it. Your record for serving up culinary masterpieces is as spotless as your white tunic. What's that, you say? Your apron is covered in grease and sweat stains? Then you're probably a short-order cook serving up concoctions [[Lethal Chef|best avoided by the living]]. But at the very least, your hat shows that ''you're'' the boss in this here kitchen.
* '''[[wikipedia:Cloche hat|Cloche Hat]]''': You're a flapper. Or at least a young woman in the [[Roaring Twenties]].
* '''[[wikipedia:Conical Asian hat|Conical straw hats]]''': Peasants in southeast Asia or China (leading to the formerly-prevalent term "Coolie hat"). Like the fez, a generic foreign hat and mostly used in jest these days, unless the wearer is a Buddhist monk or religious pilgrim. Often worn by [[Ronin]] but likely discarded at the start of their first on-screen fight.
** Gondoliers in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] III: Morrowind'' wear these for some reason. Possibly easier to program than a boater?
* '''[[wikipedia:Coonskin cap|Coonskin cap]]''': A roundish fur hat with a raccoon tail dangling from the back. While versions actually were worn in pioneer days, it was the Disney ''[[Davy Crockett]]'' television series which made it into a pop-culture symbol equaling "old-timey [[Mountain Man]]/frontier trapper." Thanks to the Crockett craze, having a ''kid'' wearing one of these establishes a setting as "1950's America."
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** Sometimes worn by [[Pierre Trudeau]].
* A '''sombrero''' says Mexican outlaw (often from the Old West era). Commonly found [[South of the Border]], as well as in [[Spexico]]. A smaller, flat topped version, called the sombrero cordobés or gaucho hat, is closely associated with Zorro and other Spanish-speaking aristocrats.
* The '''''Stahlhelm''''', used in [[Nazi Germany]], is a popular look for [[Mooks]] working for the Fascist-esque bad guys. See, for example, the [[Star Wars|Galactic Empire]] or [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Prinicpality of Zeon]]. Note most post-WW2 helmets (Including the US helmet designs the PASGT, MICH and LWH) use its cut.
* '''Sun hat''' is a broad label applied to many types of wide-brimmed hats designed to, yes, protect the wearer [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|from the sun]]. Overlaps with the Panama, but are usually made of cloth, and with a wider brim than a bucket hat. A woman in a particularly big and floppy one, carrying a trowel or similar tool, equals "hardcore gardening enthusiast." Paired instead with a long flowing dress, she becomes a fashion-plate/trophy wife, or something [[The Stepford Wives|far more sinister]]. A older heavyset man wearing a large, gaudy and/or tasteless sunhat can again be shorthand for "tourist, American, obnoxious." "Sun hat" may also refer to summer hats, which are generally straw alternatives to felt hats (the boater is a top hat or homburg, a panama is a bowler or fedora, and a stetson is a show of poor taste).
* A '''sun visor''' means that you're a preppie if it's all one color and you're female, a wanna-be beach god if it's all one color and you're male, or an accountant / bank teller / counterfeiter / card shark (depending on the genre) if it's a fabric band with a translucent green bill.
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