Cartoon Horses with Hat-titude
Inspired by one of the 2020 summer season’s hottest colours, here’s Hattingdon modeling her most recent hat, done in a gloriously chic saffron yellow, embellished with hand stitching and a fashionably large all white-butterfly. Hattingdon named this new hat Simone. Enjoy!
Hugs and kisses, and millinery blisses.
©Vivian Grant.
Updated Jan. 23, 2023.
Update: Reinvented look! 09.26.22
Hey! It’s Flashback Friday and we are bringing you a Hatful of Smiles™ with another restored, vintage classic hat. This classic hat dates to our very earliest days.
Vivian modified the daisy pattern to give it a more open look. It is so fresh and pretty in that sky blue and sweet pea green.
Hugs and kisses, and millinery blisses.
©Vivian J. Grant.
Hey there hat wearing, cartoon horse loving, darlings you.
It’s a bit nippy our part of the world but Hattingdon opted to wear a large black fascinator anyway, embellished with a very substantial bloom in a luscious pink along with a touch of sweet greenery. What’s it all about? Spring Equinox! Ain’t she sweet?
Fleur Saucer Hat in Back
We didn’t even know for sure what Spring Equinox was. It’s been a long time since we were in school. We know. If we watched the Weather Channel we would know all this. Or even the local news! We noticed it of course because of social media. How “today” of us all.
Anyway, it goes like this:
The word Equinox comes from Latin and means “equality of night and day” . . . . In the northern hemisphere, the spring, or vernal equinox happens around March 21, when the sun moves north across the celestial equator. The autumnal equinox occurs around September 22nd, when the sun crosses the celestial equator going south. (Dictionary.com)
So on March 21, 2019, you will see approximately 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. Sounds perfectly reasonable!
Brian Resnick writes:
The equinox, the seasons, and the changing length of daylight hours throughout the year are all due to one fact: The Earth spins on a tilted axis.
The tilt — possibly caused by a massive object hitting Earth billions of years ago — means that half the year, the North Pole is pointed toward the sun. For the other half of the year, the South Pole gets more light. It’s what gives us the seasons. (vox.com)
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Big Hattingdon® fan Maria in Chesapeake City, Maryland, has fallen in love with the lampshade hat series. She requested that we write a post with all of Hattingdon’s lampshade inspired hats so she can come back again and enjoy them all in one spot.
Here you are Maria, in the colours of your choice too. In alphabetical order they are:
Great picks Maria! Thank you. We had a lot of fun. —Hattingdon.
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