My blogging friend, Moira Redmond at her wonderful blog Clothes in Books, has recently been featuring hats. At the same time I was writing about the hats created by Callie she was writing about matron hats. They were hats designed for mature women dressing up.
She followed up with a post that had more matron hats and added garden party hats. I loved the illustrations of hats more than the photos.
I have links below to both of Moira’s posts.
Glory is always conscious of her appearance and makes an effort to be distinctive. For a night out at the local casino She wears a:
….navy-velvet dress that draped a little at the neckline for a slightly dramatic look. Because she was a proper Southern woman, she had purchased the matching shawl to go with it. The skin on her upper arms had transformed into a crepe-like texture, which she had long ago acceped … She had even sprung for a pair of heels with a wedge - wearable for about four hours - which was all the time she needed to play a few hands of blackjack and catch the Commodores live, in concert.
Regular readers of this blog know my wife, Sharon, loves hats. She has dozens in her collection. While she is not a Red Hat Society lady she has a wonderful red hat that I am sure would meet Glory’s approval. A photo is at the top of this post.
I find it remarkable that Glory, a strongly Catholic Black lady and even more devout member of the Red Hat Society is also a bookie working out her own betting lines for football, NFL and college (mainly the SEC). What was most interesting to me was how she worked out the anticipated scores for her clients to bet upon. She factored in an issue, wind, that she states was not a part of major betting lines. Ms. Arceneaux created a unique sleuth in Glory.
In my life as a sports columnist I recently wrote a column on the wind impacting a Saskatchewan Roughrider game in Regina. Wind on the prairies is almost as constant as at sea.
Getting back to clothing, Glory wears to the St. Agnes’s 31st Red Hat gala for Mardi Gras which is hosted by the Red Hat Society of Acadiana, a “white-sequined jumpsuit” accessorized by a belt that “was thin and had two red tassels at the end, a nod to the membership” and “a pair of white platform sandals with red soles”.
I wish I could go have king cake at St. Agnes’s Mardi Gras gala in Lafayette with Glory and the ladies of the Red Hat Society of Acadiana.
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This sounds like a very interesting read, Bill, and Glory sounds like an appealing character. You know, it's funny about hats. I think they may be making a comeback. I don't wear them much myself, unless I'm out for a while in the sun. But I do wear a straw sunhat when I visit our local wineries (there are a lot of them in the area where I live). In fact, most of the women I see at the winery do the same. It seems to be a custom, although it's not at all required, or even expected. Oh, and Sharon's hat is lovely.
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