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The Royals and Hats

coffee drinker — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 01:06:59 GMT

I just looked at some pics of the Royal Family and others who attended Prince Philip's funeral and it just amazes me just how wonderful all the women look in hats. How is that possible. I put on a hat and look like a frump!!!

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Nonametoday — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 01:20:33 GMT

@coffee drinker

I think it has to be the right hat for your head shape, size and your style, your attire. I think Kate Middleton could wear a sack and a hat and look good. I could not imagine the queen without a hat. Sophie Wessex looks great in hats. I think Camilla is one of those people who has to have her hat styled for the shape of her face, her hair color and attire. Many of us do. I just cannot imagine that sweet queen without a hat to match her wardrobe du jour.

I am a frump but I can wear hats. I can wear any shape glasses and almost any haircut that Halle Berry can wear -- I can wear. It has to do with the shape of my face and nothing else. It does not matter about my body --- I can do hats. Now, the rest of me is problematic.

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Zernia Rose — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 01:22:52 GMT

Perhaps, you can visit a shop solely devoted to millinery and work with the stylist/ milliner to choose a style that accentuates your best features. Some of the "upscale" stores had millinery departments and experienced sales staff to assist in the selection of hats, for example, Marshall Fields, Bonwit Teller, Saks, and Neiman Marcus aa well as some mid-range department stores..

Women in the royal family look great in hats, I suspect, because they employ the services of an experienced milliner fully knowledgeable about their tastes, facial characteristics, occasion at which the hat will be worn, and the skill needed to create something unique.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 01:59:51 GMT

There is something about the Queen wearing a hat that seems natural and normal, like wearing her crown, but the rest of the royal ladies IMO look frumpy and out of step with the times. Camilla is the biggest disaster with her huge, wide hats that serve to make her look wider and emphasize her facial flaws. She'd do well to leave her hats at home. The younger royals in their hats look like premature matrons. Princess Anne also looks unnatural and out of place in a hat. They do nothing for her.

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MamaWick — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:06:32 GMT

Well, this was my fascinator when Harry and Meghan got married. And of course since I couldn't possibly wear it again, I turned it back into a door wreath.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:17:01 GMT

@MamaWick Looks like you had a fun wedding celebration even if a geranium fell on your head.

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QVCkitty1 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:21:13 GMT

I have a large head and hats just don't work for me.

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Still Raining — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:37:24 GMT

Only Kate looked good, but she usually does.

The queen looks like a queen, sort of part of her costume. Camilla, ah well.

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luvzchiz — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:43:54 GMT

@MamaWick Great picture, but I wouldn't wear it out to meet your deer. One might decide that it is too delicious to wear!

I had those faux leaf fences that the Q used to sell. They looked fine until the deer that visit my yard decided that it was a buffet for them. They made short work of my once attractive fence. BTW, they only ate the leaves and left the wood alone.

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ALRATIBA — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:59:17 GMT

I grew up wearing hats both for church and as part of school uniforms. I don’t have an issue re hats. Around here you see them worn all year around.

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Linmo — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:42:28 GMT

@MamaWick It's nice to finally see the face behind all of the deer posts!

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Queen of shop — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:00:08 GMT

@MamaWickHahaha. This pic cracked me up. Not only are you a kind person to feed the deer everyday but you have a great sense of humor. Win/win. My kind of woman.

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Sooner — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:09:25 GMT

I look great in hats (of all things of course!) and I hate wearing hats. Just won't wear them. . .

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Tinkrbl44 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:02:01 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
There is something about the Queen wearing a hat that seems natural and normal, like wearing her crown, but the rest of the royal ladies IMO look frumpy and out of step with the times. Camilla is the biggest disaster with her huge, wide hats that serve to make her look wider and emphasize her facial flaws. She'd do well to leave her hats at home. The younger royals in their hats look like premature matrons. Princess Anne also looks unnatural and out of place in a hat. They do nothing for her.

@Kachina624

Unfortunately, Camilla doesn't have much to work with, and I think her hats are overdone to avert attention from other features. You're right about Anne .... hats can be very difficult, and I suspect she often chooses what she likes, not what will flatter her.

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AngelPuppy1 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:12:38 GMT

It's just part of the Royals' normal attire, I guess. Kate Middleton --- her choice of hats is superb! Of course, she looks amazing in anything and everything. And the Queen, she always has everything perfectly matched.

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Foxxee — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:03:37 GMT

I think there is a hat style for everyone. First, it's helpful to know the shape of your face, then follow recommendations for appropriate styles. Then, we need to try them on.

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tototwo — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:03:21 GMT

I think a person has to have the right attitude to wear a hat. If you feel uncomfortable in a hat, then you look uncomfortable.

Thanks @MamaWick for the chuckle. You look mahhhhhvelous, darlink. I have a floppy garden hat that I decorate with silk flowers once a year -- we dress up to watch the Kentucky Derby right here on our living room TV. Even mix up a batch of mint juleps to complete the mood.

Beauty is an attitude - have a good one.

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Nonametoday — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:15:45 GMT

@Still Raining wrote:
Only Kate looked good, but she usually does.

The queen looks like a queen, sort of part of her costume. Camilla, ah well.

@Still Raining

You do not think that Sophie Wessex looked good? I think she did. I think she looks a lot like Lady Di. Not identical but very similar in appearance. She does not have that savoir faire that Lady Di had but she is not as young and did not start out as young, which is probably much better for her longevity in the RF.

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Nonametoday — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:21:14 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I look great in hats (of all things of course!) and I hate wearing hats. Just won't wear them. . .

@Sooner

I am glad to hear there is another one here who does. When I was younger, I was in a large department store trying on hats for fun, when a gentleman approached me and asked if I would be interested in doing some millinery commercial/advertising for the company he represented. I did not know what to say. I agreed, however, and I did. He told me I had a great profile for hats. At first, I thought he as going to be a masher, but the department manager assured me he was not. It was fun, not very longlasting, but the few ads I did I enjoyed the experience.

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Nonametoday — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:48:20 GMT

@tototwo wrote:
I think a person has to have the right attitude to wear a hat. If you feel uncomfortable in a hat, then you look uncomfortable.

Thanks @MamaWick for the chuckle. You look mahhhhhvelous, darlink. I have a floppy garden hat that I decorate with silk flowers once a year -- we dress up to watch the Kentucky Derby right here on our living room TV. Even mix up a batch of mint juleps to complete the mood.

Beauty is an attitude - have a good one.

@tototwo

A friend told me that she thought it took a glamorous, not especially beautiful or even pretty woman, to wear a hat, to which she added she never thought I was especially pretty or beautiful but she did think I was glamorous, so maybe that is right. I wear hats better than my sister who is beautiful!