to Trooping the Colour 33 years ago. There’s a mix of hats here that seem pretty standard for their wearers and the fashion of the times…. except for the Duchess of Gloucester’s wide plaited headband at the far left. That one nearly defies description.
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36 years ago to a 19-year-old British aristocrat at a society wedding (her own nuptials would take place two months later). The photographs of Lady Diana Spencer this day in the most wonderful red hat with raised brim around the back showed a foretaste of the fashion wonder that was to come.
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Embed from Getty ImagesThis wedding – of Prince Charles’ good friend Nicholas Soames (grandson of Winston Churchill) to Catherine Weatherall – also closely foreshadowed the wedding dress we’d see on July 29. The two are surprisingly similar and clearly, reflective of the fashion of the times.
Hat by John Boyd; dress by Donald Campbell
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We’re wrapping up our month of hats from the past with one many of us have seen before- a glorious turban covered in silk hydrangea blossoms worn on this day in 1966 to the Epsom races. These floral covered turbans appeared on a few royal heads during the 1960s and while I’m happy the style is no longer en vogue, I couldn’t resist including at least one.
to sixteen years ago today and a British royal state visit to Norway. Queen Elizabeth’s pink and purple straw bucket/cloche hybrid hat by Frederick Fox made a memorable statement…. if you look closely at Queen Sonja’s classic white and navy straw design, you’ll see it had a larger brim, here on its first outing, than it does now (jump over to this post for its most recent outing earlier this month for Norwegian National Day). Which version of Sonja’s hat do you prefer?
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to this day in 1997 when Queen Beatrix welcomed an American president The Hague in a frothy peach hat.
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