The Hakka hat coincidence

Invited to what promised to be boring dinner party in tiny hamlet in backwoods of N Notts with only 8 other guests, I decided to liven things up by wearing one of the collection of rare/ esoteric hats my husband brought back from his regular trips to obscure places. I had never worn any of these hats outside the house and my hat of choice for domestic jollifications was either an Uzbek shepherd's hat or a Turkmenistan police man's hat. However on this occasion I chose a hat I had never put on before a large traditional hat worn by members of the Chinese Hakka tribe. I walked in to the dinner party wearing the hat to find that one of the guests – a friend of friend unknown to the hosts or to me - speechless with astonishment. He was a Hakka - and had never seen one of the hats outside China. Odds of putting on esoteric traditional Chinese headgear for the first time then walking into a kitchen in a tiny backwoods hamlet in the UK and meeting a member of the specific Chinese group who are the unique wearers of that hat???.