My west coast brother informed me that today is "National Hat Day." While I don't regularly wear hats these days (fake fur trimmed hood yes, hats no) there was a time in my life when hats were a really big deal. When I was in my pre-teen and early teen years my mother and I would make at least two trips a year to the big city of Fort Wayne to do some shopping. This almost always involved buying new hats for the season. Spring and fall each year the stores introduced the 'color' for that season. One year the fall color was royal blue, very pretty. I believe my hat that year was a pill box style. Every Sunday all of the women from toddlers on up came to church wearing hats and gloves, and carrying purses of course. Even in the summer time. In fact I remember my father teasing us once about wearing gloves in the summer. White sheer light weight gloves of course, with little ruffles at the wrist. As I've grown older, I think I've come to understand why hard working women of my mother's era and earlier wore gloves to church and other fancy occasions. It was to cover up those aging work worn hands. Hummm. Just looking at my hands here in the bright light of my desk lamp, perhaps I'll go back to wearing gloves to church, and, while I'm at it, why not a hat? Does anyone know where I can buy a hat?
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