I thought the hat should have had a portrait of the happy couple in the frame below the bow.
Katy On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Sharon Collier <sha...@collierfam.com> wrote: > I swear, it looked like nothing other than one of those plastic, molded bits > from the 1970's, that were painted gold and were used as wall decoration. > Specifically, an oval picture frame with molded bow. I think my great aunt > had one, or something very close, on her wall. It was hideous there, too. > On a related note, people were saying her raccoon eye makeup looked awful, > too. I saw a bit on TV, filmed before the wedding, in which Diane Sawyer was > interviewing the hat designer, and who should drop by, but Princess > Beatrice. Without makeup, just casually dressed. She was looked lovely. > Sharon C. > > -----Original Message----- > From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On > Behalf Of Danielle Nunn-Weinberg > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 11:58 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: Re: [h-cost] least favorite hat > > Yes, I have to concur, I forgot to mention that one. LOL! I can't decide > if it was an alien trying to eat her head, or coming out of her head. > Either that, or she decided she wanted to pay tribute to/compete with the > trees in the Abbey???? <snicker> The colour didn't do her any favours > either, the grandmothers at my husband's brother's wedding wore colours like > that, only with more sequins and beads...(which probably couldn't have made > it any worse). > > Cheers, > Danielle > > At 06:07 PM 4/29/2011, you wrote: >>Well then. My least favorite hat, of the ones I was able to see well, >>was HRH Beatrice's-- I think! The one wearing pink, with the odd >>vertical sculpture on it. Yeesh. You'd think she'd have noticed it >>wasn't flattering. Or perhaps they didn't give her a 360 mirror. >> >>Feathers, I can live with. But that thing was just plain odd. Her blue >>sister's hat was simply unfortunate; but the pink one was an oddity. >> >> == Marjorie Wilser >> >>=:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:= >> >>"Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement." >>--MW >> >>http://3toad.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian katybisho...@gmail.com www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
