Wednesday 20 June 2012

Hats off




I'm not really a hat person,
but I used to like the idea of a new hat for spring
and once bought a yellow felt hat 
with a sprig of fabric flowers pinned to its brim.
I miss that hat.
This one is alright for gardening but rather reminds me
of my school Panama.

I probably won't be wearing a hat to the wedding,
they mostly make me look like a mushroom,
but I certainly won't be wearing a fascinator instead.
If they are not good enough for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot
then they are not good enough for me.

10 comments:

  1. No, no hat for me either at our son's wedding. Which is quite soon.

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  2. Good for you, I loathe fascinators - the least fascinating headgear ever invented.
    Looking at today's papers, might have been a good idea if they'd also banned tattoos.
    But your millinery standards are much higher than mine ... your gardening hat is almost identical to my second-best one (ie next down from my wedding hat! it will not be downgraded to garden hat for, ooh, at least five years.)

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  3. I think your hat needs a pretty flower attached to it so that it won't remind you so much of your school Panama. And I too dislike fascinators. They are the headwear equivalent of crocodile skin.

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  4. I think you'd look fab in a cloche. I'm just saying.

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  5. ...who thought up the name 'fascinator'...?

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  6. I like some fascinators, they can be a nice ornament for short haired women such as myself, as long as they don't look like an old mouldy stuffed blackbird like the one I saw the other day.
    I am a hat person and would like a nice wide brimmed one for sitting in the sun. I saw a photo of myself in a little cotton hat and decided I looked way too much like Gilligan.

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  7. Hats used to look rather food on me but not anymore. So I don't look in mirrors...

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  8. I'm loving the sound of your yellow felt hat from days gone by. At this rate you won't need a hat just flippers and a bloody snorkel!
    (Am I allowed to swear on here?)

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  9. I think I've heard that tattoos are acceptable at Ascot....

    Best wishes.

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  10. The "Royal Enclosure" brochure was fun; I had no idea there were such strict rules! I'll take the pale pink dress on page 9 (not that I have anyplace to wear it).
    I just broke down and bought a Tilley raffia hat, made by your UK brethren in Canada. It will work as well for a wedding as for walking dogs, which is where it will spend most of its time.

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