Turban Hats in Fashion - Sepia Saturday

I knew immediately which photograph I would feature when I saw this week's Sepia Saturday prompt of a fashion model, wearing a turban hat and overcoat c.1960's  - below - my moth, dressed formally in her turban hat, camel coat, court shoes and gloves. going  out with my father for a Sunday drive. 

 

Mum with her sister, my Aunt Edith - same car and much the same outfit. My mother must have been around 60 years old - what a contrast to the casual style worn today by 60 year olds and older. 

In the background is the faint image of  the Forth Rail Bridge, built 1882 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.    In the foreground is  the structure of the  Forth Road Bridge.   Sunday afternoons  often  meant we drove out  to  see the progress on building  it.     Before then,  you had to join the queue at South Queensferry to cross the River Forth on a team of ferries, first  established by Queen Margaret of Scotland in the 11th century for pilgrims to travel to Dunfermline Abbey and St. Andrew's.

So the  opening in 1964 by the Queen of the  1.6 mile Forth Road Bridge  - at the time the longest suspension bridge outside the USA - was a major event in Scottish transport history,  linking Edinburgh with the north east of the country.  The bridge after 50 years old has been supplement already by the  new Queensferry Crossing Bridge,  opened in 2017

(I always like adding a bit of trivia history to a post!).

 Back to More 60's and 70's fashions:

 My mother is second from  the left on this outing in 1961 

 

 My husband's mother at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Edinburgh - early 1970's  

 A summer hat for a visit to Edinburgh Zoo - 1960's

 My proud parents, smartly dressed for my graduation, 1965 

Mum still wearing her same favourite style - 1965

Wedding fashions in the 1970's

 1971 and turban hats still the rage at my wedding. 

And at my cousin's wedding a year later -

my parents on the left and aunt and uncle on the right. 

Brown obviously the favourite choice for men's suits. 

And finally - 

My Mother as a Model.  She was apprenticed as a tailoress at the age of 14 and was still making her own clothes in her 80's.  

  My mother modelling an outfit she made

in an event  organised by the Scottish Women's Rural Institute (SWRI) - 1968

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