Digging through our closets: Glorious hats for Easter and beyond
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Before heading out to the holiday sales, gift receipt in hand, get some fashion inspiration from some of our readers’ favorite features from 2009. It might be too winter-dreary to imagine springtime with its warm sunshine, blooming flowers and wild and fantastical Easter hats -- but since Los Angeles winters are short, we think it’s OK to start dreaming now.
Revisited by popular demand is the story (and the dazzling photo gallery) about the splendid hat traditions of African American churches -- and we aren’t just talking about in the South.
Karen Grigsby Bates painted the picture of ‘broad brims in coral, pink and cream trimmed in ribbons and flowers; lampshade profiles in aqua and pistachio; and high-hat toppers in dusty rose, trimmed in lace and festooned with silk flowers’ the ladies of South L.A.’s West Angeles Church of God in Christ wore on Palm Sunday.
-- Kelsey Ramos
Photos: ‘Church crowns,’ glorious hats for Easter and beyond
Luke Song’s hats grab attention -- even Aretha Franklin’s