When you come to the countryside of VN, especially in Hue, you can see a lot of beautiful girls with a palm leaf conical hat on. The conical leaf hat is said the symbol of the VN culture. The hat is made from a special kind of bamboo and young and soft palm leaves. The ribs are shaped into a conical from. The diametre of the hat is usually about between forty and fifty-five centimetres ; and it is about twenty-five or thirty centimetres high. The ribs are covered with palm leaves which are tighly stitched onto the bamboo diametre ; rib