As much as I love craft, no one ever warned me before becoming a mum just how bloody difficult Easter Bonnet creation can be! As a mum to a nearly 3 year old, I figured that us making a bonnet together would be fun – We could spend some quality time together, sticking on chicks and buttons and then sit back and gloat with our creation, which she would then wear with pride and not want to take off! The reality?? Nothing bloody sticks, there is yellow straw EVERYWHERE – and the worst bit – she doesn’t even want to wear it!!! RAHHHHHHH!
I don’t ever remember my mum having this trouble, in fact my mum and dad had been known to make *the* best hats in the entire world – cue this little number modelled by my sister in 1987! 🙂 (To be honest I’m not sure how she didn’t fall over!!)
I’m not sure about you – but with all this sticking and sewing I’d forgotten why we even wear them in the first place, so in case you are wondering…
Easter bonnets date from a time when most women wore hats of some kind – a staple part of the stylish woman! Irving Berlin wrote about a woman wearing a Easter bonnet in an Easter parade, bringing the hat into popular culture. In New York, well-off women would show off their latest hats at the parade, which inspired Berlin’s description.
It is a tradition to wear new clothes at Easter, and women and girls could purchase a new hat to wear at church on Easter Sunday. In post Civil War America, women swapped their mourning veils for the bright hats.
So there you go – I guess we can be thankful we haven’t got to go and invest in a real one! x
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