Category Archives: Vintage: Hats From The Past

1954 Australian Tour: Sydney

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Royal Hats on Friday, February 5, 1954, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh continued their visit to Sydney with stops at Hyde Park, Sandringham Gardens, Macquerie Place (where they planted two trees and opened the Australian Memorial Driveway), Concord Repatriation Hospital and a children’s rally in Concord Park. The Queen topped a silver lace dress with a white triple layered calot hat. The hat raised around the front in a near bonnet shape and was trimmed with a bow on one side and a covered button on the other.

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On Sunday, February 7, 1954, the couple attended Sunday service at St. Andrew’s Cathedral led by Archbishop of Sydney Howard Mowll. Her hat appears to be a ruffled (or floral?) calot worn high on the head to frame her face.

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1954 Australian Tour: Sydney

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Royal HatsQueen Elizabeth spent February 6, 1954, the third anniversary of her ascension, in Sydney. For visits to Bondi Beach and Randwick Racecourse, she wore a pale wheat coloured silk dress with ruffled collar topped with a curved calot hat covered in feathers of the same hue.

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1954 Australian Tour: Sydney

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Royal Hats This film gives a great overview of the 1954 tour- the harbour welcome we heard about firsthand yesterday, the immense crowds, the many travelled miles and some of the lovely hats worn by the young queen that we’ll admire further in coming days.

On February 4, 1954, the Queen opened the New South Wales parliament in Sydney. She wore Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara (the same one that Diana would often wear 30 years later) while the Duke of Edinburgh wore the cap of his tropical white naval uniform.

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1954 Australian Tour: Arrival In Sydney

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Royal Hats On Wednesday, February 3, 1954, Queen Elizabeth made history as Australia’s first and only monarch to set foot on its soil, arriving at Farm Cove in Sydney in a floral frock and calot hat of layered crin petals.

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On this tour, the Queen would travel 10,000 miles by air on 33 flights, 2000 miles by road on 207 trips, and visit not only all state and territory capitals except Darwin, but an additional 70 country towns as well. By all accounts, this was a momentous tour and over the next 57 days, we’re going to follow it (and its marvelous hats!) to its April 1, 1954 conclusion from our vantage point today, some 67 years later.

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Hat From the Past

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Royal Hats to January 18, 1960 and a visibly expectant Queen Elizabeth (Prince Andrew would arrive a month later) returning from Christmas break at Sandringham in a chic brimless hat.

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