After all there is something comic about farm vehicles in cities delivering small girls in straw hats to the doors of their day schools.

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Feeling giddy, we returned to our tent, grabbed the thermal blankets and straw hats that had been provided for us and came back outside to read.

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The farmers sported conical straw hats.

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He saw this Mexico as if it were the backdrop of a movie on afternoon TV, where children walked around barefoot in the dirt or on broken sidewalks and small men wore wide-brimmed straw hats and baggy white shirts and pants.

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Nowadays, many look at it as a bunch of partiers in silly shirts and straw hats wearing gaudy paper flower leis and drinking overly sweet, superfluity rum drinks while trying not to burn down the backyard with torch fuel being spilled on the grill.

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In pre-Inca days, the valley was inhabited by two linguistically different groups, the Cabanas and the Collaguas, and their descendants can still be distinguished by their traditional hats: flat straw hats embroidered with a lace band for the Collaguas in the east and rounded felt hats intricately embroidered with cotton for the Cabanas in the west.

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Topshop is currently selling 1920s inspired straw cloche hats.

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