POV - Writing from a different perspective:

[Guest]

I have a big floppy straw-type hat, but no garden. Once a year the SF opera gives a free performance in Golden Gate park. I wear it then while sitting in the sun for two hours. I love straw hats but there's not enough sun in SF to warrant buying lots. Mostly I have felt hats - cloches, fedora-tyes, berets, odd shapes, mostly black but a nice purple and a white with rose trim.

I think I'll put one on now, just to celebrate the day.

P.

 

[fifty5]

Corsages and boutineers?

~lucky

Corsages ok, but WTF are boutineers?  I mean, Lucky, I know I'd like your booty near (near enough to touch! ) but I somehow doubt that's what the word really means...

I'd second og's comments too.

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[Guest]

eff, according to the BBC shows I've seen, you call them 'buttons', a flower in the button hole on a man's lapel. I think the spelling here is French, just a guess - boutenniere (?). P.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Corsages ok, but WTF are boutineers?  I mean, Lucky, I know I'd like your booty near (near enough to touch! ) but I somehow doubt that's what the word really means...

I'd second og's comments too.

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Well I misspelled it for starters. Boutonniere is a flower worn in a buttonhole/lapel for men.

As far as the other goes, I think it's simply spelled booty near!

~lucky

Edited to add: P got there before me. I'll leave it.

 

[fifty5]

And horse racing, most notably Royal Ascot.

Yaeh, but Ascot is a Royal Garden Party... basically...

It's true though: no Englishwoman feels formally dressed without a hat - it's the demand to dress formally that's fading away.  My impression that that is more true of the middle than the upper or working classes - and I'd guess that is because the toffs do more formal events, while the working classes want to change out of grotty work clothes. In contrast, someone who wears a suit (or similar) to work is more likely to want to dress down for a change. (While academics just wear regulation denim 24/7...

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[oggbashan]

Serendipity

While waiting for the floor to dry after my wife's cooking, I looked into an insert magazine in today's Sunday Times.

"Style" page 26

"Q.
I am stumped by hats, but must buy at least one to attend Ascot and several weddings this summer. Any advice?
A.
Go to ... when ... and a host of milliners will be dispensing pre-Ascot advice... Tickets cost £34 and include full afternoon tea. To book, call ...."

I told you I wasn't joking. £34 seems a bit expensive for afternoon tea with a host of milliners. They are tradespeople after all.

Og

 

[fifty5]

I miss men wearing hats. My brother in Vienna still does.

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[oggbashan]

I miss men wearing hats. My brother in Vienna still does.

Perdita

Some men still do, even if the disrespectful refer to it as a cake.

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Crowned Og

 

[Guest]

eff, you look good, meant to say that at some point. Handsome, that's it.

Ogg, well, cakes don't count. sorry.

Perdita

 

[oggbashan]

I don't wear my cake when I'm incognito. I wear one of the 'civvy' hats.

Og

 

[fifty5]

eff, you look good, meant to say that at some point. Handsome, that's it.

Preen....

Luv you Perdy,  



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[McKenna]

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[McKenna]

Re: Serendipity

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[Guest]

Mack, friends and I bring blankets, food and wine, even champagne, to the free opera. I hope you have fun w/the Shakespeare event.

You would laugh if you could see me. I have my Disney Snow White pj's on still (it's Sunday after all) with my purple felt hat from Venice (it's my fave now). I'll see about a photo later, or perhaps before I leave for work tomw.

Perdita

 

[McKenna]

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[McKenna]

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[Guest]

Mack, here's a pic I took of the shop window where I bought my two hats. A young woman makes them, even shoes. The purple is the same felt used for my hat, you'll get an idea of the style. P.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Oh ms. P, those hats are making my mouth water, as welll as the shoes.

 

[Guest]

Oh ms. P, those hats are making my mouth water, as welll as the shoes.

Good, meet you in Venice then. Bring plastic.

The milliner/shoemaker is a beautiful young woman (30s) I envy. She owns her own shop, is creative and lives in Venice. What a perfect life.

P.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Good, meet you in Venice then. Bring plastic.

The milliner/shoemaker is a beautiful young woman (30s) I envy. She owns her own shop, is creative and lives in Venice. What a perfect life.

P.

I would love to, I'm so glad to meet someone else who can appreciate millenery.
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[Liar]

I miss men wearing hats. My brother in Vienna still does.

To jump the bandwaggon...

I can't to a

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since my AV is full of geese. But I do wear a rather snappy Bogart style hat when the mood strikes and the weather allows for it.

#L

 

[fifty5]

I like the thought of dressing up for special occasions or evenings out.

Drool!

I actually just changed out of my reproduction late 19th century nightie. I love that thin, cotton lawn stuff, and the embroidery just appeals to the female in me.

If the heating hasn't been turned up, why do I feel so warm?

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[McKenna]

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[McKenna]

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[fifty5]

...and I haven't even begun to describe the winter flannel collection....

ROFLMAO, Mack

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