It was popular in the 50’s and 60’s to wear hats, and Grandma, first as a young girl, then a newlywed, then a woman away on a busy farm with an increasing brood of children, wore hats until they were no longer popular.

Here, she’s travelling with a small, light-coloured hat.

All the women have hats. (The man is like, shoot, I forgot my hat in the car.)

Accessory hats are also applied in winter. Hats and gloves match.

Here is Grandma looking smart. The hat looks like a wreath of leaves stolen from the tree.

Grandma is a new mom here with very fancy hair. There’s a hint of a dark hat with a polka-dotted decoration.

Grandma seems to like polka dots, because here they are again, only bigger.

Grandma passed along her love of polka-dot hats to her children.

Here, the polka-dots went from the hat to the dress. This hat looks like a small white cake.

The small white cake hat was a favourite.

Even when it was windy and the veil blew up.

Even when visitors had larger hats.

Here is one of Grandma’s winter hats.

Here’s another, with a feather. The feather pokes fun at Grandpa who finds the weather much colder than Grandma.

Here are some of Grandma’s light-coloured hats.

This one has a flower.

Sometimes, Grandma wore a scarf.

Do you know who liked large hats? Grandma’s mother-in-law.

This may be an informal visit, while men are working on a roof, but Grandma’s mother-in-law will keep her hat on.

See? Besides a large hat, Grandma’s mother-in-law is also the only one with sunglasses. Grandma refuses to be outdone though… she’s wearing a bright red necklace.

Here, Grandma sets the limit on her hat size.