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I own two hats - a Panama and one of a similar appearance woven from straw from my native Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. I wear them occasionally in summer - but I don't seem to suit hats very well, sadly (notice I don't suit them, rather than the other way round. The hats themselves are not to blame, lol.).

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'Il faut cultiver notre jardin.'
Voltaire, Candide

aww at least you're trying. You get an 'A' for for effort. Keep trying, there must be one out there somewhere for you!

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"If one synchronized swimmer drowns... do they all have to?"

I own soooo many hats!! I should do a little collage of my hats... *ponders*

yessss hats.

PS - Thanks Seitou for featuring my hat club!!! I hope to one day be able to have contests and whatnot.

As for my favorite hats, well they're the big ones, with bows and feathers, and broaches and ribbons and stuff. They're so beautiful, but I get stared at when I wear one in public. I'm starting out with just a wide-brim floppy hat this summer (I'm bringing it on vacation), and perhaps I'll find a nice plain straw hat and adorn it with some pretty things. I have a whole bunch of neato accessories lying around that I'd love to put on a hat: a tiny birdcage, a big gold feather-shaped x-mas ornament, TONS of ostrich feathers (if anyone needs a source, lemme know! ), ribbons, a small fake peacock (yeah, I KNOW! right?) Those things are just crying out to be put on a hat! Perhaps some of those things will be used on my hats for the festival this summer...

On a daily basis, I either wear my new French-inspired "beret", a pin-striped fedora, my floppy hat, sometimes an old man hat (but with corset-style lacing up the back)...
I saw a guy wearing a top hat in the mall the other day, and he was rockin' it so good, that I wanted to hug him. For wearing a hat. That's how much I like hats...

As for hairstyles... I'm not sure I like some of the stuff I see. One girl looked like she was attacked by a shaver, cause she had pieces of different lengths all over the place; another had a transversal mowhawk (like, from ear to ear); I'm not saying my hair is anything to brag about, but I like the hairstyles from the later 1700s. Curly, elegant and feminine.

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"If one synchronized swimmer drowns... do they all have to?"

My old favourite Hat is an old black felt Baker Boy hat that I bought years ago before you could really buy any hats in Adelaide (South Australia). I'd wear it all the time and people would look at it a lot and ask me wear I got it from, not long after that my grandma made me a few more baker boy type caps which got me even more attention. And they atlast you were able to purchase them in the fashion shops. (Not just the specialty hat stores.) Yay!

I used to have a floppy top hat, oh and that's right I did have a bowler hat I wore that a lot when I was younger. I love all sorts of hats. Like Idzit said, the big ornate hats with all the intricate details they're gorgeous! I actually made one of those once for my grandma who was going to an Adelaide Cup Race Day luncheon - I loved it and she did too. I decorated it with little coloured birds, butterflies and flowers and I can't remember what else, that was a long time ago. I did take some photos, but I'd have to hunt them down.

Oh and berets owned a few of those over the years.

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Haha, that I rather doubt. If good old, reliable panamas and classic hats such as those won't do, I don't think any other will!

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'Il faut cultiver notre jardin.'
Voltaire, Candide

Never give up hope!!!

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"If one synchronized swimmer drowns... do they all have to?"

On top of the crumpetty tree
The Quangle Wangle sat;
But his face you could not see
On account of his Beaver hat.

For his hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
And bells and buttons and loops and lace,
So that nobody ever could see the face
Of the Quangle Wangle Quee...

I think people ought to bring back hats. Aux armes, citoyens! Or aux les chapeaux, rather...

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'Il faut cultiver notre jardin.'
Voltaire, Candide

Cute poem!!

join the ~BringBackHats-Club!!!

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"If one synchronized swimmer drowns... do they all have to?"

It's from a poem by Edward Lear.

I'll pop over to the club!

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'Il faut cultiver notre jardin.'
Voltaire, Candide