| THE EASTER PARADE
ON FIFTH AVENUE IN NEW YORK CITY WAS BRIMMING
WITH HATS
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| It was a colorful
day filled with sunshine – Easter’s
Finest |
We got lucky this year – Easter weekend
fell upon us as we exited the Headwear Association
dinner. That meant that the Hat Life roving reporter
(me) got to take some shots at the hat action
on Fifth Avenue. There were lots of fancy hats,
crazy hats, outrageous hats and some mad hatters.
There was a hat contest at Tavern on the Green
sponsored by Tavern on the Green (site of the
dinner) and it was temperate and sunny this year.
If you remember last year it snowed on Easter
Day.
We met Mark Haldeman from Paul Smith in the UK,
Don and Kate Biondi of Greenwich Headwear in Australia
(they were in the US for the headwear dinner and
to see some hatters), John Callanan of Dorfman
Pacific (he was out and under the weather), hat
film maker and hatter Andee Kinzy and Gloria Jelks
from Texas (in NYC for a meeting) who said her
husband told her she had to stop buying hats so
she divorced him (smart woman).
There were hats made of sugar bunnies, hats made
of faux carrots, metro card hats, and hats in
the shape of bridges, buildings, towers, and bells
and whistles. It was fun and furious, as Easter
hats should be.
There were crowds around a group of sophisticates
who donned 40’s apparel. Cameras were flashing
everywhere and the compulsion to snap had Bill
Cunningham of the New York Times looking diminutive.
When I snapped his picture he winced and ran away.
Happy Holiday to all of you and I’ll see
you next year.
The hat lady
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The Group of
Retro Hatters – It was a popular photo
op
The fellow on the right is Gregory Moore of
the Gregory Moore & Cosmopolitan Orchestra
(212-759-2712). If his music is like his apparel
choice he is a real winner. Moore is a consummate
hatter and was wearing a 1932 Cervo Homburg
(www.gregorymooreonline.com) |
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Gregory Moore
of the Gregory Moore & Cosmopolitan Orchestra
in a Cervo Homburg hat (212-759-2712). |
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| The Doggie Contest
Winner (2 years in a row) |
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| Hand Cut paper
hats – Award winners for creativity |
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| The Egg Man |
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| The Carrot Men
Take the Prize |
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| Beautiful and
talented hatter Andee Kinzy |
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The Egg Man,
Diane from Hat Life, 84-year- old hat lover
Margie Birnbaum and daughter Nancy Birnbaum |
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| Gloria Houston
Jelks – A hat lover that we love (in
the Crystal Room of Tavern on the Green). |
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| Fun, feisty
and fervent hat lovers on Easter Sunday |
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