Thursday 28 January 2021

If You Want To Get Ahead...

 ...Get A Hat!

We've had a lifetime of school productions, and Holiday Clubs, and belonging to organisations that required hats - and we both love wearing hats generally - whether to shade us from the sun or warm us in the cold. But to possess over forty is probably a little excessive now we approach retirement

Baseball caps, berets, felt hats, straw hats, wedding hats, fancy-dress hats, uniform hats, mob caps, and warm woolly hats...and my jester hat with bells

The three oldest; Mr B's banker's bowler [1940s]. My mum's summer hat [1960s] and Bob's mortar-board [1970s]

I have been ruthless- and put crushed wedding finery and moth eaten berets in the bin. A large number are going to a local pre-school group's dressing up box. 

The ones we still wear regularly - my Tilley hat, Bob's straw panama, a couple of baseball hats...these and a few others have packed into a proper hat box ready to travel. Two warm hats have been kept back as the weather is still rather cold and we might need them in the near future.

And now I have just remembered that when I dashed up to Cornerstones at the beginning of December, I hung up a whole row of Santa hats on the pegs in the Utility Room, and they are still there.


11 comments:

  1. That's an impressive collection of hats! I'm sure the preschool will appreciate your donation.

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  2. Do I see the beautiful navy hat you lent me for a wedding in Surrey and that Niqi's mum brought back to you?! (Didn't she?)

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    1. She actually came to church wearing it. It's there in the front row. Sadly somebody subsequently sat on it and so it's been retired from active service. It was 29years old, I think we've had our money's worth.

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  3. I love hats! I wish we still wore them here. You have quite the collection!

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  4. Wow! That is a lot of hats. I always picture myself wearing a hat but then I put it on and it's not the pretty picture I imagine! lol

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  5. Ideal for an amateur dramatics society or a choir! For myself I would keep the three in the last picture - when would you ever see genuine hats like that again?

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  6. That's some collection! hope you kept an Easter bonnet back for future events!

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  7. HATS!!!! I love them! So nice to see such a collection! Dress up stuff is great for kids. I gave a load of handbags to our nursery at school for that reason too!

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  8. Have to say, am really enjoying looking at your clear-out photos. A lifetime of service laid out in objects. Just lovely. (And also appeals to the nosey parker in me obviously)

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    1. Thank you. That second sentence is lovely.

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