to April 1944 and a wonderful snap caught at an 18th birthday celebration featuring a fascinating pair of hats. Queen Mary’s usual toque is replaced here by a jaunty design with upfolded brim trimmed with large flowers on the side. Princess Elizabeth’s pleated cap with visor brim has such a ‘military uniform’ vibe that one must look twice to see it’s not such.
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to April 5, 1939 and a wonderfully dramatic halo brimmed hat worn by Princess Martha of Norway on a visit to America.
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to Queen Margrethe’s 18th birthday on April 16, 1958. For this coming of age milestone, she wore a lovely floral frock with matching calot hat. Photos from the time are all in black and white but, thanks to the Danish Monarchy, we have a view of it in full colour.
Next week we’ll celebrate Queen Margrethe’s 81st birthday with another inventory of her hats- what colour would you like to see?
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to sometime between 1850 and 1860 when this hat stepped out on the head of Queen Victoria. The caption describes it as “‘Calash’ style with wiring in silk casing. Plain weave silk, trimmed with silk ribbon, and inside with blonde lace and velvet flowers with aerophane leaves.” A ‘calash bonnet’ was a new hat style for me- see a great description here.
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Queen Elizabeth visiting Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on May 25, 2005
As Dutch milliner Wies Mauduit reminded yesterday, today is “Wear A Hat Day” in support of brain tumor research. Join in milliners and hat wearers around the world on Instagram here donning a hat for this important cause (and by all means, share your social media selfie in the comments here as well!)
Thanks, Mittenmary, for suggesting this very fun photo!
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Royal Hats 