[Siobhan]

Maybe I can start a trend.

You start that trend, my dear!

I wear hats from time to time, and when there is no hat I am wearing a lace mantilla. The wonderful thing is to see younger women starting to wear them -- without any conversation with me about it Older women just look at me and wonder, "Oh, did I miss the message? Are the veils back? Oh, its just her....and those young girls...well, I'm not that old.....where are my veils anyway...." You can sort of read the conversation running behind some of their eyes. But the reason we do this is because, very simply, we love Jesus, and we wish to greet so great a King by being dressed as respectfully as we can

God bless.

[AnAmericanMother]

I can't get away with a hat in the choir - it WOULD stick out - but I always have something in my hair in church, even if it's just a pair of hair sticks and a scrap of ribbon or lace. Some of the very stylish hats my grandmother wore weren't much more than that.