- By Carole Eibelheuser -
The opening day for the Del Mar racing season is just around the corner. That means hats of all sizes and shapes from the
ridiculous to the sublime will be there, too, to make fashion statements.
Do you remember when women always wore hats in church (white gloves, I think, were optional)? In my own experience in the 1940s and 1950s, a hat in church was mandated by my mother. At least once a year, she would take me hat shopping at our small town local milliner or a department store in Hackensack. I could hardly wait to be grown up enough to wear a hat with a veil like those mysterious women in the movies of that time.
Today my hat collection consists of baseball caps, western straw hat, bucket hat, a straw hat with a ribbon above the brim, and my Graduate Nurse’s cap. That’s all, folks!