Many Hatty Returns — For the love of hats

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September 4, 2010

You Bet Your Life 1954 You Bet Your Life was a quiz show hosted by comedian Groucho Marx. It was on the radio in the 1940s and graduated to the television later on. The Grand Prize at that time was $3,000 (quite a sum of money). I was searching for some hatty material and I [...]

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Maintenance

August 30, 2010

I have decided to redo this whole site by way of clean up please be patient for a few days Darla Please Share and Enjoy:

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Hats on Parlor Music Song Covers

August 24, 2010

Parlor Music In the days before radio it was common to have a piano in the Drawing Room. In Victorian, Edwardian times and beyond into the 1920s entertainment in the Parlor was very popular. This can be seen in the photograph probably taken around the time of World War 1 or just before. It is [...]

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Bob Dylan Tribute

August 20, 2010

A Tribute to Bob Dylan I have been helping a friend do some You Tube videos. Here is the first one. Notice he is wearing a red hat for his performance — I wonder whose influence is at work there? This was performed at the Toronto CommFFest last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiKsp-Lxz7E Please Share and Enjoy:

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Hatequette for Women

August 16, 2010

Hat wearing etiquette for women There are a lot fewer rules for hat wearing by women than for men. See my previous post on hat wearing by men. One thing is for sure a woman never doffs (tips) her hat to anyone. If she did this it would certainly be considered strange. Even stranger if [...]

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A Triangular Hat Box

August 11, 2010

A very Nifty Triangular Hat Box This is a design for a shipping hat box from a patent (443,397) filed in 1890. It’s a great design. The advantages cited were: the fancy hat would not move around in any position – saving packing. and more of these triangular boxes could be stored in the shipping [...]

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Etiquette of hat wearing for men

August 10, 2010

Hatequette for Men The days when every man and every woman wore a hat to go out are behind us at last for the time being. Perhaps universal hat wearing will return who knows? With universal hat wearing came a whole host of social conventions that developed over the years. These conventions developed out of [...]

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Technical Issues

August 9, 2010

Hello everyone I will start posting here again shortly. I had to deal with a hacking attack. With the help of my host Blue Host I was able to fix the problem files and everything should be OK now. If you visit ANY site and you get sent to a mysterious site for heavens sake [...]

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