'Mad Hatter' or 'Royal Wedding Hangover'

[Lorchen]

A friend asked me last Thursday if I would have been able to pop on a posh hat and go to that wedding on Friday.... Well, I don't do hats, but I am the proud owner of a really traditional wedding hat. I bought it in a charity shop when I needed a hat for a charity dressing-up day at work. I didn't have time to change my clothes, but managed to get my son to snap a quick picture (you are all permitted to fall off your chairs laughing), hence the bright-red cardigan. I saw Alex wearing a very snazzy number on Facebook. Are other members willing to share hat pictures?

[Lorchen]

I wore a hat at my wedding...loved it. Will try to hunt a pic and scan it, but not sure what I did with them. Love that hat of yours. Its shiny!! Sandi

[djane]

Lorchen-- I love your hat. I think it is very appropriate for a royal event!

[kathyst2]

Lorchen, it's a very flattering hat! Maybe you could have lent it to one of the ladies wearing so-called hats at the Wedding.
I just wonder if 30 years from now, they will look at pics of the wedding and ask "what was I thinking?"

Kathy

[kathyst2]

Any pictures of me in hats are pre digital and will take some hunting. But when I was living in London, I got into the habit of always wearing a hat - reason I am only 5' tall and it ensured that on the tube I didn't get anyone who was holding onto the overhead rail resting their elbow on the top of my head! (this actually happened one time :evil: ) also during winter it was/is a much easier way of keeping the rain off my glasses than using an umbrella, which would have been eyewatering for everyone else :wink:

The problem with most people wearing hats these days is that they don't take their hairstyle into consideration to make sure that the two work together, rather than fighting for attention. Also I saw a lot of hats/fasinators that were being worn centrally, when they would have worked much better being worn over one eye.

By the way Lorchan that hat does suit you 8)

[EditorAnne]

After seeing that wedding congregation, I want a fascinator!

Actually, when I got up the other morning and looked in the mirror, I had one growing out of my head. :? I'll never call them rooster tales again.

Lorchen, your hat looks just like the Queen's!

[Suewarby]

Oh go on then Lorchen I will play even though I do look like something of Bill and Ben the flowerpot men .

[EditorAnne]

Oh go on then Lorchen I will play even though I do look like something of Bill and Ben the flowerpot men.

Omigod! I thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men! I'm sure I'm the only one in Canada. I remember them from the early 1960s, before I started school. No one I mention them to ever knows what I'm talking about.

Nice hat, Sue! Woohoo!

[EditorAnne]

Oh go on then Lorchen I will play even though I do look like something of Bill and Ben the flowerpot men.

Omigod! I thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men! I'm sure I'm the only one in Canada. I remember them from the early 1960s, before I started school. No one I mention them to ever knows what I'm talking about.

Nice hat, Sue! Woohoo!

Flob-a-lob-a-lobber......Weeeeeeeed :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

PS they have been re-made/brought up to date, but their speech is much clearer than it used to be
go here for their latest reincarnation http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/billandben/

[Lorchen]

Sue, that's a great hat, and you look great wearing it! I guess we are just no longer used to wearing hats and so feel somewhat silly when we do. My maternal grandmother (born in 1880) never left the house without a hat on, and I have a friend (28 years old) who always has a hat with her. Like Rosemary, she dislikes umbrellas and puts a hat on when it starts raining.

[Suewarby]

Posy you gave me a fit of the giggles fancy remembering what they used to say, I can't beleive they are making this politically correct
is makes perfect sense to me as it was !!! and Ann you watched them in Canada Amazing now what about the Woodentops and Spotty Dog !!!!

[djane]

I am totally out of the loop on the flowerpot men :lol: (we did not have a tv in our house until I was a teenager) but Sue I think your hat looks wonderful.

[djane]

Posy you gave me a fit of the giggles fancy remembering what they used to say, I can't beleive they are making this politically correct
is makes perfect sense to me as it was !!! and Ann you watched them in Canada Amazing now what about the Woodentops and Spotty Dog !!!!

.....and Ba-by Wood-en-top....i-e-i-e-i-eeeeeee
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Don't forget Andy Pandy with Teddy and Loubylou!

[djane]

Heck, TV wasn't part of my life until the late 60s and I was in my mid twenties. I used to love to wear hats but gave them up because they aggravated my headaches. I actually had quite a number. My thought, too, was that Lorchen's hat could be the Queen's.

[Lorchen]

So, Agnes, if I wear that hat during a meeting you'd curtsy?? Giggle.......