"Hats" is the theme of this week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph - no shortage of a match from my collection, beginning with grand floral fancy hats from the early 1900s worn by my cousin's ancestors in Blackpool, Lancashire.
Onto the 1920s and 1930s for some further fashions in hats.
My husband's parents Ivy White and John Robert Donaldson of South Shields, County Durham. They married in 1929.
My great aunt Jennie Danson in 1929 in the fashionable cloche hat.
My mother, Kathleen Danson in the 1930s
1950's-1960's
Most of these photographs date from the 1960's, when my mother and husband's mother would have been 60 years old. At a time when fashion was changing rapidly and I was wearing mini skirts, the older generation still wore for everyday occasions hats that we now reserve for formal wear. Turbans seemed to be the main fashion style here.
Quite a bevy of hats here! We have a real fashion parade today on Sepia Saturday. Like you I have only worn hats for warmth and to keep the sun off.
ReplyDeleteA nice variety of the different styles from one decade to the next. Some of those fancy hats worn by your cousin's ancestors were quite wild with decoration and right in with the fashion of the day. Although they were different style hats, I smiled at your mother and mine both wearing their hats tilted to the side. Obviously a '30s thing. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat hats, especially the old ones.
ReplyDeleteLovely. I neglected to included any cloche hats and interesting that Australian fashion was similar. I would have thought that we would be behind.
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see all these hats on women. And when I think back to pre-beauty-parlor days, a woman with a lot of hair would not have it washed and styled that often. But pile it up and stick a hat on her head, and she was good to go!
ReplyDeleteThese hats are wonderful. I'm partial to the 1950s-60s hats, which I remember wearing and seeing on my female relatives. But the earlier cloche hats were great, too. What I could never see myself wearing were the flower-adorned big hats. I'm with you -- mainly knits these days.
ReplyDeleteAnother great collection. Alan may not participate much anymore, but he is pretty good at picking themes that match our blogger collections. I marvel at the size of women's hats in the 19th/early 20th century. It seems they would require very large boxes for storage and I can't imagine how they were stowed for travel. Perhaps the change to softer materials in hats was influenced by the inconvenience of trying to take the big ones on holidays.
ReplyDeleteGosh. Those early big ladies' hats must have been almost as hard to balance on your head as a heavy royal crown... ;)
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing the old hats. I remember my grandmother always wore one, but my Mom didn't except to church services on Easter. It's really nice you have so many family photo's.
ReplyDeleteFabulous hats. You have a great collection of photographs.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your lovely comments and for sharing your own fashion parade in hats - this has proved a popular topic - and a fun one!
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