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When you travel, it's
always a good idea to bring along some type of
hat. When you are busy walking around
playing tourist, you may be exposed to hours of
sun on your head and face and wearing a hat
with a brim will help provide sun protection.
Don't forget to wear sunscreen on your neck and
face.
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Santorini Island,
Greece |
There are many different
styles and features to consider in a hat, but we
recommend something that is packable and
lightweight or even your favorite baseball style hat. Baseball
hats can be attached to the exterior of your
backpack until needed and many outdoor stores
will have baseball style hats with folding brims making
them easy to
store inside your pack. Hats may also
have side loops allowing you to insert your
sunglasses frame on top of the hat brim helping
to prevent them from falling off when you are
not wearing them. For example of various
styles of hats, see the REI Website:
REI Hats.
Some things to
consider in a travel hat
- Packable
- Lightweight
- Side loops for
sunglasses storage
- Folding brim if
applicable
- UPF Rated sun
protection
- Adjustable
- Water Resistant
- Quick drying
Red Hat Society
The society is a social
organization founded in 1998 for women over 50.
As of October 2006 there are about 1.5 million
registered members in over forty thousand
chapters in the United States and thirty other
countries.
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Red Hat Society |
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Windsor England |
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2008 - Garter
Day, Windsor Castle |
The founder
of the society is Fullerton, California artist
Sue Ellen Cooper, who in 1998 gave a friend a
55th birthday gift consisting of a red fedora
she had bought a year earlier at a thrift store
along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem, whose
opening lines read:
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"When I am an old woman I shall wear
purple
With a red hat that doesn't go and
doesn't suit me."
Cooper
repeated the gift on request several times, and
eventually the group all bought purple outfits
and held a tea party. At first spreading by
word of mouth, the Society received national
publicity in 2000 through the magazine Romantic
Homes and a feature in the Orange County
Register that ran nationally. Cooper then
established a "Hatquarters" to field the
hundreds of e-mail requests for help starting
chapters. She now serves as "Exalted Queen
Mother", and has written two best-selling books
about the Society.
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The Red Hat Society
fondly refers to itself as a "dis-organization"
with the aim of social interaction, and to
encourage fun, silliness, creativity, and
friendship in middle age and beyond. The Society
is not a sorority or a voluntary service club.
There are no initiations or fundraising
projects.
A founder or leader of a local chapter is
usually referred to as a "Queen". Members are
called "Red Hatters". Members 50 and over wear
red hats and purple attire to all functions. A
woman under age fifty may also become a member,
but she wears a pink hat and lavender attire to
the Society's events until reaching her fiftieth
birthday.
Website:
http://www.redhatsociety.com/
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