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green ([personal profile] green) wrote2013-05-01 11:16 am
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hats. or, why I am no longer afraid of turning 35.

So, I've been angsting quite a lot over my 35th birthday. Which is in 5 days. The 6th... write it down on your calendars! I expect lots of hugs and possibly cupcakes!

But yeah, I've been crying over it. A lot. I don't know why, I don't think other people who are 35 or older are OLD or anything. It just sounds like such a horrid number for me. I don't FEEL 35.

I don't know about you... but I'm feeling 22...everything will be alright...if you keep me next to you...

Ahem. Sorry, I was feeling the Taylor Swift there for a minute.

But anyway! This is what I wanted to tell you. I was talking to [personal profile] lim and we started talking about HATS. Because apparently if you go to a wedding in England you're expected to wear a hat! Or a fascinator, if you're under 35.

And for a minute I was like, oh, well, that makes sense, you can't wear the cutesy fascinator if you're OLD. And then [personal profile] lim was like NO GREENIE! It's the other way round! You can't wear a hat if you're under 35, but you can wear a hat OR a fascinator if you're over 35. Because only the 35 and older set can really pull off a hat.

So like, I don't know why that changed my entire worldview. But dudes, I can wear a fascinator or a hat. I can pull off a hat, because being 35 is AWESOME.

...not that hats are a thing here. But if they were? I'd rock something like this.
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HATS!

[personal profile] fbf 2013-05-01 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have always loved hats and somewhere around my 33rd birthday decided that I didn't care if people 'wore' hats or not because I was going to. I stumbled across a local milliner and that was that. I now have a ridiculous amount of hats. I have winter hats, fall hats, and summer/spring hats. I even have one particular hat that is my gardening hat. Yesterday I had on a fabulous Apple Green and Black 'church' hat. I paired it with a similar shade of green top, beat up blue jeans and my black Birkenstock sandals. If you like hats, wear them with whatever you want and just remember not only are they fun, but they can protect you from the sun. Double duty fun!

If you need to ease yourself into the hat wearing, Target has nice inexpensive hats. Just saying.
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[personal profile] scheherezhad 2013-05-01 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I adore hats! It's the part of me that, despite being a daily jeans-and-tees person, longs for the days when people Dressed. I despair over the culture of pajamas in public.

I like to buy my hats at flea markets (both the periodic type and the junk shop type), because I can find such interesting specimens. Fedoras often catch my eye, but I'm more likely to buy clever small ones that I can perch on my head at jaunty angles.
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[personal profile] waketosleep 2013-05-01 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well duh, now you're 35 you're officially a Distinguished Lady.

;)

I didn't wear hats at all when I had short hair because it's curly and the hat head was NOT TO BE BELIEVED, but now that I've grown my hair out I occasionally do. I have a fedora I got for $8 at H&M, it's the douchiest hat ever and it looks fantastic on me. It also has just enough brim for a little sun protection and doesn't look any more stupid with normal clothes than it already does. I'm trying to picture myself wearing a fascinator, though, and it's not working. :D
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[personal profile] waketosleep 2013-05-01 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I just wear mine when I venture to that mythical place called Outside and the sky-fireball is being merciless and I feel like it. :D

Yeah I just can't see myself as the kind of person to wear feathers and tulle on my head.
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[personal profile] everythingshiny 2013-05-01 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
awww i like the divideable by 5 birthdays. but yeah its rough when you don't feeeel that old.

lol FASCINATORS :D
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[personal profile] cleo 2013-05-02 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
MAKE HATS A THING THERE!
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[personal profile] adafrog 2013-05-02 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Very cool. Although I cannot pull off hats. :0
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[personal profile] adafrog 2013-05-03 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
lol It's totally fun to pretend. :)