The best straw hats in the world were from Switzerland
Luton, Florence and the Swiss town of Wohlen, in canton Aargau, have something in common. In the nineteenth century they were booming centres of the straw making industry. An exhibition highlighted the glory days of straw hat fashion. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch/SF)
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