Why do indigenous people of Peru use bowler hats?

Question

Serious answers only. Please stop with the stupid answers. Thank you.

Answer 1

Its a fashion thing.

Answer 2

I don't know, why do they?

Answer 3

Are you one of 'dem 'dere skin-head trolls???

Answer 4

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! FUNNY!

Answer 5

Love those hats. And they seem to look good wearing them. I am happy with that. Tried to find history on that but was unsuccessful. Hope somebody can tell us why. Will be watching to see.

Answer 6

they do not have access to baseball caps.

Answer 7

Hey,  I was just in Peru about 10 days ago and I learned that it was because they are versatile,  they clean easily,  they are cheap to make, etc.

Answer 8

modern milliners did not invent the shape, dear...

Answer 9

I would have to slightly disagree with the information someone found in Wikipedia (no, Wiki is not the bible!!) Spanish conquerors dictated the fashion when they conquered peruvians for 500 years. The hat they wore was slightly different than the bowlers hat but there is enough evidence to prove that the hats (and other fashion accessories) were derived from the spanish fashion. These hats are mainly used in the province of Puno (border with Bolivia), they are mainly white and sometimes they adorn it with coloured threads. There is a famous dance called La Diablada (dance of the devil) where they (the women) wear the hats.

Bowler hats as in England are not the ones used by the ingidenous people as the English setters never went to Puno, where these hats are worn. Irish railway contructors went to another part of Peru, not Puno. Dont know about Bolivia though. The info in Wiki sounds more like a legend to me.

Answer 10

it was a peru hat later became bowlers hats...