I found this image of Robert Jordan on Tor's author page on him. Anyone else think he based Mat's hat off of this? xD

I think it totally looks like Mat's hat.  Now if I could just find me one...

Thats cool. Wish I could find the like

 

 

 

 

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/jwdenzel/RobertJordanSFuneral/photo#5117573171769984210

 

Similar to the Dragons on Rands arms

Hey!  Do you think there is anything about the hat that Lanfear (Cyndane) can track?  She insisted that Kadere give it to him.  Just a random thought.

That hat looks almost exactly the way I imagined Mat's hat. The one difference being that I always pictured a brown leather band above the brim, like this Aussie hat:

 

http://www.australianhats.com.au/stockman-buffalo-leather-foldup-with-elastic-pi-238.html

  -only the leather band was larger, brown, and the overall shape was a bit more uniform like RJ's

 

Similar to the Dragons on Rands arms

 

It's funny, before I had even heard of TWoT(it's a good thing this series is named The Wheel of Time, not The Wheel About Time, that acronym would be decidedly unpleasant) I got a small dragon carving as a gift which is as close to the dragons described in TWoT as makes no difference. Foreshadowing? Damn RJ's good.

 

 

    Not to be disrespectful to any religion, but I always thought the hat looked like either an Amish or Jewish hat. The one RJ is wearing in the picture reminds me of them.

    Not to be disrespectful to any religion, but I always thought the hat looked like either an Amish or Jewish hat. The one RJ is wearing in the picture reminds me of them.

 

I thought of the Amish too.  I just thought Mat's hat was like that, but with a wider brim (more shade) - at least that is what I have in my imagination.