[Diana in Wisconsin]

That's a beauty! I kid you not...my Grandmother Edith had a hat like this:

I absolutely loved it! She used to get Sis and I the most GORGEOUS Easter bonnets and fancy gloves and pretty white wicker purses. Man, that woman had style.

It was my OTHER Grandma that was the Country Bumpkin...I grew up to be more like her, much to my City Grandma's chagrin! Think, 'Oliver's Mother and how she doted on Lisa' in Green Acres, LOL!

[Albion Wilde]

my Grandmother Edith had a hat like this:

I had a feather hat when I was just starting college. It was similar, but much simpler and clean lines -- just a very smooth bell curve cloche, no defined crown or hatband, layered with feathers the same way they grow on a bird. Back then the big thing was a mini sheath with matching opaque tights, go-go boots and a stylish hat; pale lipstick and lots of black mascara. The fashion magazines had face shots of models wearing those feather hats giving that "do me" stare out from under the dangling ends of the feathers on the front of the brim -- all dark lashes and big pale lips, with the brows hidden by the brim -- or by Beatles bangs!