A VISIT TO THE MILLINER'S SHOP

 

Oh look.  Here's a cute millinery shop.  I need a new hat.  Not that I really need one.  But I love hats and there’s nothing like a new hat to perk one up.  Besides, it's coming on Mother's Day and surely a mother needs a new hat for her special day!  So . . . what sort of new chapeau might I pick?  One with flowers or feathers or ribbons & bows?  And what color?  Red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, peach . . .  oh the choices!

Red poppies

Poppies and ribbon

Poppies and straw loops

Tall order poppies

Estelle in my big red hat.  It's unadorned right now.  Perhaps I should add some poppies . . . or ribbon . . . or a bow or . . . 

Smorgasbord

Buffet

Sweet pink

Bold pink

Big Bow pink

Tall order purple

Purple lavender

Lavender Wow

Lavender green

Lavender blue . . . dilly, dilly

Much ado about blue

Flowery blue reminds me of

my once-upon-a-time flowery blue hat

Big Bow blue

Blue & Green with garden salad

Simple green & lace

Feathery green

Big Bow green

I do like big bows
Big yellow roses - perhaps too big?

All yellow, and yellow is my favorite color

Yellow & Peach, but not for $245.00

Peachy keen

Peach rose with wheat

Peaches & Cream

Heavens!  How is one to choose between all these beauties?  So . . . which one do you think I waltzed out of the shop with? J 

:->

La Nightingail


HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

Comments

  1. Barbara RogersMay 12, 2023 at 2:05 PM

    what fun...I always steer away from those floating frond things...I just know a cat will see them! If I were to choose one for myself, I'd go with Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly! It would go with my white hair, and shade my eyes. Which one is your choice?

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  2. KristinMay 13, 2023 at 4:51 AM

    I don't think I've worn anything but a beach hat since Easter in the 1950s. I do need a nice wide brim one, without embellishment though!

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  3. SharonMay 13, 2023 at 5:15 AM

    Peach Rose with Wheat is my favourite. I don't wear hats though as anything on my head makes me overheat and faint!

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    1. La NightingailMay 13, 2023 at 1:34 PM

      I'd say that's a pretty good excuse for not wearing hats! (overheating & fainting) Whoa.

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  4. Molly's CanopyMay 14, 2023 at 3:10 PM

    All of these would go over big in the NYC Easter Parade! I'm partial to the one with lavenders on it. The others, although beautiful, seem as if they'd go flying in the wind.

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    1. La NightingailMay 14, 2023 at 4:55 PM

      I think you'd have to hang onto most of the hats pretty well on a windy day! I walked down Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday in 1992. it was quite an experience. There were seriously beautiful hats right alongside some of the silliest craziest hats I've ever seen.

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  5. Mike BrubakerMay 14, 2023 at 6:34 PM

    Even if you chose only a few of these hats, you definitely would need a bigger closet with shelf space to store them all! And to answer your challenge, I guessed Peachy keen. or maybe the garden salad one if you really wanted people to notice you,

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    1. La NightingailMay 14, 2023 at 7:34 PM

      Had it been for real it would have been a really hard choice! But the Big Bow Pink would have finally won my favor. :)

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  6. ScotSueMay 16, 2023 at 5:32 AM

    Yes, great fun indeed! Though I cannot imagine anyone wearing such a fancy frippery hat in Scotland - except perhaps at a big society wedding, provided it wasn't windy or raining! The last time I wore a dressy hat was one I bought years ago for a friend's daughter's wedding. Then it lay in the top of my wardrobe for years, unloved and unworn until I passed it onto to a charity shop.

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  7. La NightingailMay 18, 2023 at 9:01 AM

    I haven't worn any of my fancy hats for a while now. I was wearing all sorts of red & purple hats when I was a member of the Red Hat Society, but that was quite a few years ago - at least 16. After that I was part of a Ladies Who Lunch foursome for a short time. We dressed up & wore any sort of fancy hat we wished. The idea came about when a lovely little tea shop opened up in Groveland. Now, like yours did till you gave them away, my hats sit up on the shelf. I'm thinking of starting another Ladies Who Lunch small group, however . . .

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