Etienne, then and now

Etienne updated banner featuring both hats.

Greetings and thank you for stopping by.

Years ago, Vivian was looking for something extra she could do to raise money to help rescue horses. The more she and her group rescued, the more horses there seemed to need help.

It was also becoming obvious they were not going to get all they needed financially to help the horses simply from donations. So what could they do?

Then Vivian had a spark of inspiration. She would create something they could sell — and that is how the hat wearing cartoon horses Hattingdon Horses came to be born.

The first Hattingdon of course was Curtis. He was “it” for a long time. Then someone suggested I create a “lady” hat wearing horse to go with him. That encouraged the creation of a second Hattingdon horse — Harper in her large pink wide brim fashion hat. Hmmm. So what came after all of that? A whole lot of hats — created by V.

Etienne

A big time favourite

The hats you see below are from Vivian’s early design years. She named the design Etienne. The hats are fabulous. Red, white and blue always catches the eye. And Hattingdon wears them well . . . very well.

Etienne Hattingdon, L2R the original and the new.
Etienne by V

Hope you love seeing Hattingdon and her many hats. —Hattingdon & Co.

© Vivian J Grant. All Rights Reserved.


Blog Hattingdon H logo in her signature brown color.

Updated: 12 Feb ‘2026.

Columbus Day 2024

Columbus Day artwork by Inside the Hood

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492

On his return in 1493, he moved his coastal base of operations 70 miles east to the island of Hispaniola, what is now the Dominican Republic and established the settlement of La Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Americas. Source: Wikipedia.

We are celebrating Columbus Day with Hattingdon’s Quinn sweetheart hat.

Quinn Hattingdon. Originally created 2017.

Anchor’s away . . . right? Happy Columbus Day everyone!


Hattingdon H logo.