Is it tied under your chin with a silk ribbon?
Or is it attached with a hat pin?
Are You Wearing Your Spring Bonnet
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14 responses to “Are You Wearing Your Spring Bonnet”
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a huge silk ribbon-i learned early on in my hat wearing career hat pins and myself are at odds-a hat pin could be considered a weapon in my hands-a weapon agaist myself-and you sweet corey-ribbon or pin? 😉
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No, i am not wearing a spring bonnet. i live in florida and have hats to protect my face from the sun, but usually wear them if i am outdoors for long periods in the garden, at the pool or beach. They are straw and large brimmed.
I am from Kentucky though and they still go out a big way to have made and wear fancy hats ( bonnets) for the Derby. The splashier the better.
Last month i went to an Art Festival in Naples, Florida. There was a booth with fantastic hand made hats. Small to perch, large to shade, but all meticulously made with intricate fine details. I wish i had a business card to share with everyone the name. They were both beautiful and darling at the same time.
Another story, another time, a fond memory. When i was little in the late 1950’s i would go downtown at Easter with my grandmother and mother to shop at a store selling just hats. Back when they also had little veils in the front. I remember my grandmother trying many on till she found the right one. i was amazed it took her so long! I had to have one also to wear to Easter Mass. I did not like hats as a child but love them now. i can’t wait to read the replies on this post! -
No spring bonnet for me. Wooly hats, hoods, parkas – winter is putting up a fight in Warsaw this year.
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I would have to use both – ribbon and pin since we are on day 6 of 60mph winds. You would think that Mom Nature would run out of wind!
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Both! Thinks I will have a day to wear hats!
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I think the lady in today’s pictures is related to the lady in yesterday’s painting!
Brrr! We need a warm bonnet today! Even in the South!
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this was a DARLING reply-enjoyed the story of your grandmom-funny how hats ebb and flow in our lives-Lady Diana was the icon that made hats cool in my teens- we wore french berets in high school for mass-they were navy blue-i wore a very small fascinator(not what i called it) to my senior prom-i was the only one to do so- it was like a very small disk white- with a white rose on top-small veil-i also purchased vintage hats 30’s and 40’s in college and wore them oh my gosh i had forgotten all my hat stories-i wear a lacoste baseball hat in the sun white- my straw ones never stay put-thanks for sparking the memories on this very cold winter like night here in philly-waiting ever so eagerly for spring!
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Oh I’m wearing a hat alright…tied on with a wooly scarf! It’s COLD in NYC today, and the wind tunnels are terrible right now. The Groundhog lied…plain and simple. 🙂
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Never really understood how hat pins worked, anyway – I planted Spring flowers yesterday but sans chapeau!
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I was thinking something along the lines of this:
http://www.retronaut.com/2013/03/marie-dresslers-hat/ -
I love this post Corey! Like Jody, as a child in the 50’s I remember going with my mom to the hat stores or the hat departments in larger stores. I still miss those counters with the hat stands and the mirrors. You could sit comfortably and try on the hats. Veils, flowers, hatpins. Oh the joy of it all. I think hat shopping would cheer up the ladies on those days. Now? The Brocante? A new lipstick? Shoes?
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I absolutely love those pictures
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Last time I had a true bonnet was when I was a young girl. Every week before Easter, we would go to the store and look at the hats they were showing to wear for Easter mass. I remember mom buying one for me that was white straw with curled brim and 2 white grosgrain ribbons down the back ending in silk daisies. I felt so special sitting in church that Easter morn! Only the elastic band under my chin holding it on was bothersome. Ha! The Met in NYC has lovely bonnets in their Fashion and Impressionism exhibit right now.
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Only hats I own are an Aran-style one I knitted for cold weather, and a battered old straw sunhat. When arriving at Boston airport (both directions) recently, I tied a wool challis shawl over my head for added warmth.
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