When I was very little, like around a year, my parents took me to Coco's. While waiting for the meal, I took the napkin in front of me, and placed it on my head, then began laughing incessantly. It was clear I was making a joke. Look! This thing that isn't a hat is on my head! Get it!
I was just looking through my Facebook profile photos ... and darn if there isn't something on my head in pretty much every other photo. Hats like the one here, which is my Easter/Royal Wedding Hat (there are more Easters than Royal Weddings, but I wore it when I got up at 3AM to watch Kate marry Wills). There are more casual hats, like the big floppy brown one that I love to wear to protect my face and neck from the sun. I used to wear a different, white hat for that, but people thought it was silly, plus the newer brown one is bigger. With hats, bigger = better - most of the time. Because I also love my cloche hat, my pill box hat, and one that is essentially a fascinator. All of them are black with black feathers. Love it.
But it's not just hats. It's also flower wreaths at the Ren Faire, bandannas when out sailing, the ribbons off of presents, and the occasional menu. I dunno, I just like putting things on my head, I guess.
I have also made my own hats. When I was in college, during my last two years, for work study, I worked at a Christian after-school homework house. I was in charge of arts and crafts (for the first year - in the second year they ran out of funds to buy new craft material, so I was in charge of arts and crafts one day to finish the rest of the craft supplies and board games the other day). Anyway, for Mardi Gras one year I had us all make jester hats out of flat foam, tin foil, and bells. I love to wear it on Mardi Gras, except that a friend gave me a very fancy mask a few years back and I find it's difficult to wear a mask with large plumage and a jesters hat. But I make do. Because you all know how much I love Mardi Gras.
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