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Wow. Take a look at this elegant hat. Striking, isn’t it? We love it. Vivian named the design Chrissie.
The Chrissie fashion hat is made of a round, black dome surrounded with a luscious green tilted brim, and trimmed with two large and festive poinsettias.
What a stunning look, and so very merry. We hope you love it too.
Love Hattingdon & Co.
Greetings and welcome to Hattingdon’s selection of Christmas hats for 2024.
We kick off the festivities with this golden classic hat — embellished with a trio of jolly white jingle bells. We named the hat Carol.
Isn’t she pretty?
Oh, by the way. Did you know there is some debate concerning where the song Jingle Bells comes from?
Two different towns, hundreds of miles apart, both claim to be the birthplace of the iconic song. While Massachusetts-born Pierpont was living in Savannah, Georgia, he had what would be “Jingle Bells” published and copyrighted under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in 1857.
However, many claim the tune was written years earlier at the Simpson Tavern in Medford, Massachusetts, insisting the author was inspired by his childhood home of Medford where the winters are more apt for sleigh riding.
Jingle bells are sleigh bells, by the way. See you on Thursday!
Updated 12/04/24
We thought it might be fun to revisit the 7 hats of Christmas that Vivian put together last year. She was inspired by everything from jingle bells to plum pudding to the “jolly old elf”.
Chrissie Hattingdon.
More about the famous dessert at end of post.
As much as we love all the others, this has to be the pièce de ré·sis·tance.
There is a popular myth that plum pudding’s association with Christmas goes back to a custom in medieval England that the “pudding should be made on the 25th Sunday after Trinity, that it be prepared with 13 ingredients to represent Christ and the 12 apostles, and that every family member stir it in turn from east to west to honour the Magi and their journey in that direction”.
Recipes for plum puddings appear mainly, if not entirely, in the 17th century and later. One of the earliest plum pudding recipes is given by Mary Kettilby in her 1714 book, “A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery.” Learn more » »
P.S. In my part of England recipes are called receipts. Vivian.
If you love sleigh bells we recommend Ten Fun Facts About Sleigh Bells by ClausNet. It is really cool.
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Updated Dec. 19, 2023.
Hello and welcome. So nice to see you.
Vivian created a new hat for Hattingdon, and it is amazing. It is a Christmas hat featuring a lovely poinsettia she designed. The hat design name — Chrissie. Here she is!
It has a 20’s vibe, doesn’t it? Hattingdon looks quite fetching in it. We have put it on product for you. We are also putting the poinsettia on some product too. It is building a following!
Let’s go.
We have put the poinsettia to work too. By request . . . !
Save 40% with code WRAPITUP2023 as of this writing 12/12/2023
Hey. We better go! See you later. Thank you for stopping by.
Love, Hattingdon & Co.
Header Image Credit: Poinsettia by Plant Perfect (they have a good article on poinsettia aftercare).
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