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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI may be wrong but Kerry's wife is the most intelligent woman there
IF she is the lady wearing a hat.Why did they change the custom to not wearing a hat? It must be when the pope said you don't have to wear a hat to church, and after centuries of having to put something on your head, the women took them off and left them off forever. (not catholic by the way)....
Maybe the pope needs to start them wearing hats again to start a new industry giving jobs and employment to many.
Go, Mrs. Kerry. But you need the pope.
crim son
(27,462 posts)People who wear hats are smarter than those who don't? People who abide by tradition are smarter than those who don't? Or am I totally off the mark?
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)When I just take out birdseed I pull up my hood.
Hats are warm. These political wives all requested that their coats and dresses be lined because of the COLD.
Hats are practical. Not the kind the Queen wears when she goes somewheres and the women there all wear them.
If you notice the crowds, many many common people wore warm hats.
crim son
(27,462 posts)As somebody who lives in Maine but never wears a hat, that didn't even occur to me. I can be pretty numb sometimes.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)alea jacta est
crim son
(27,462 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)...yes, people who wear hats are smarter than those who don't. You lose much of your body heat through your head.
Fla Dem
(23,347 posts)CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)I suspect Hillary might have an edge in intellect...but not much of one.
And there is always the first lady, Michelle Obama, who is pretty smart herself...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)At least Michelle is. She doesn't really need a hat there.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Maybe they just enjoy the freedom to feel the sun shining down on them.
Unless it's raining, I feel that wearing a hat is merely a fashion statement.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)...and a few in Colorado, as well as two dozen summers in the South, and a few in Phoenix, I consider a hat protection from the elements. I consider NOT wearing a hat when conditions call for one the "fashion statement". Of course, if people want to freeze their asses off, that's their business.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Also in V.P. spouses, there was the late Elizabeth Edwards.
Really, recent Dem Pres and VP spouses have been and are powers unto themselves.
It takes a very secure guy to marry wonderful women like them.
karynnj
(59,474 posts)We have no way to asses which is smarter. Teresa has done many amazing things - all very quietly. One was that Teresa was the person behind the combined effort of Pittsburgh's philanthropists in the 1990s which actually transformed the city and revitalized it. She was also a force behind it becoming a very green city. Parts of the book that she wrote with her husband that were written by her show a very focused, brilliant woman.
It goes without saying that Hillary and Michelle are very intelligent as well.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,271 posts)To each his or her own, but if hats become fashionable again I will defy fashion and still not wear them because I look like the world's biggest dork in a hat. Even when it's below zero I won't wear one. There are some lines that simply cannot be crossed.
Some people look elegant in them.
Then there was the one that looked like a big pink toilet seat that was worn by the princess at the last royal wedding. Not all hats are attractive, even on attractive, non-dorky people.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,271 posts)There are hats, and then there are hats.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)The hat fetched $130K on e-bay, and she gave the money to UNICEF and Children in Crisis.
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/05/royal-roundup-princess-beatrices-hat-earns-130000-for-charity/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,271 posts)I'm glad she gave the money to a good cause.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)No, I mean the teeth
Owl
(3,629 posts)I don't get it.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)as was that one's eye makeup. She was telling the other royals what she thought of them and their foofaraw, and I applauded her.
Princess Beatrice, IIRC. Fergie's child.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)antelope horns!
Fergie lives within the Royal Family in the guise of her daughter.
I wonder what the Queen thought when she saw that hat!
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)and that it never comes out in any public venue.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Although she did go along with the "James Bond" entrance to the London Olympic Games.
It was quite surprising.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,271 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)at church. I used to be Catholic...so I know.
She wore a little veil because they went boating all the time, and she'd slip one on to go to church...
Pants - same way. Jackie wore them. She did more to change the church than the pope when you stop and think of it.
And babushkas. Everybody had at least 5, washed, ironed and ready to go, and this was in the US, not Russia...
Isn't there anyone here who's at last 70 years old???
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)At private functions, she didn't..only veils if in church. Maybe when they went overseas she wore them as part of their custom there.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Catholic here, too.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)northoftheborder
(7,566 posts)that's what they were called; just the scarf we wore on our heads when it was cold. Not to church though, we wore hats then, (sometimes, not required in our church, just the fashion). Can't remember when I stopped wearing those head scarves, prolly early 50's; but stopped wearing hats to church in the early 70's.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)when outdoors in windy conditions. My Mom had one that she sometimes wore while accompanying my Dad on his evening fishing expeditions
Boating was one activity, riding in a convertible was another. Usually, the scarves were a pretty, sheer color.
Remember, women's hair then was often set on rollers, teased, combed and into a style. "Then the style was "set" by spraying on about a half can of extra-strength hairspray. The legendary Aquanet hairspray was the best. What women ended up with was a helmet-like hair sculpture on their heads.
No one wanted to allow a gust of wind to topple the sculpture and go back to the first step of setting it back on rollers.
They weren't referred to as veils, though.
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)this killed that fashion trend (for men). It's just that, though: a legend.
http://www.primermagazine.com/2010/learn/the-man-who-killed-the-hat
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)amandabeech
(9,893 posts)ananda
(28,782 posts)Jackie Kennedy was so beautiful, with a sort of ethereal class that is matchless.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Gawd he was handsome...
cali
(114,904 posts)I don't know why on earth you think that's cold, hon.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)and then I give it away. I hate despise loathe hats, and I think it comes from them making me wear one to church until Jackie came along.
It really threw me when Mrs. Kerry wore one, and I had to give her credit for being her own woman.
Can't like her a lot tho because of Heinz soup. Took everything but Heinz Ketchup to ENgland to be made there and left Pittsburgh, the old home of Heinz where the buildings still stand. And their 39 cent pork and beans are now available fo $2 at the local store. And I just noticed my keyboard doesn't have a symbol for "cents"
karynnj
(59,474 posts)The fact is that there are Heinz products sold in England that are made in England. The ones sold in the US are made in the US. In fact, years ago, we had an English nanny who had her family send her a few cans of English Heinz beans - which she loved. I had picked up cans at the store, after explaining that Heinz was an American company, but she did not like the American ones at all. We found out that they produce product tailored to the tastes of each country.
Not to mention, Teresa has nothing to do with the Heinz company. She runs the Heinz family foundation which is a philosophical foundation which has given grants to Pittsburgh, many environmental causes, women's health care etc.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)They didn't used to be made in England going back 30 years ago or so.
THis is before Kerry...
karynnj
(59,474 posts)She owns some Heinz stock, but it was less than 4% of the company's stock. Senator Heinz himself did NOT run Heinz.
As I said, the UK Heinz beans - which ARE made in the UK - taste different than the American. Here is one source that explains that
"
Heinz baked beans became very successful as an export to the UK, where canned baked beans are now a staple breakfast food, in America the H. J. Heinz Co. continue to sell baked beans, however they are not always as widely distributed as competing American brands. Despite their international fame there are currently substantial differences between the Heinz baked beans produced for the UK market (descended from the original American recipe) and the nearest currently equivalent American product (Heinz Premium Vegetarian Beans).
The American product contains brown sugar where the British beans do not, and the US product contains 14g of sugar per 16 oz tin[12] compared to 7g for the British version (equating to 140 vs 90 calories). The US beans have a mushier texture and are darker in color than their UK counterpart. This has resulted in a situation where the product is now imported back to the brand's home country. For several years, the UK Heinz Baked Beans have been available in the US, either in different sized cans from those sold in the UK or in a 385 gram can (the same can as the 415 gram can in the UK) with an "export" label with American English spelling and the word "baked" dropped from the title on the label. These are sold in many US specialty stores, such is the popularity of baked beans and their appeal to expats. Bush, Van Camp, B&M, and Heinz all produce pork-free baked beans labeled as vegetarian beans, making this American dish available to people who abstain from pork for religious, dietary, or ethical reasons."
As to when those British factories opened, here is a link that shows the oldest opened in 1958. This is before Teresa even married John Heinz!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Baked_Beanz
I don't have a can in my panty, but I suggest that you look at the grocery store the next time you go. The cans in the supermarkets here are from the US.
Not that it matters as Teresa has no say in any of that.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)hence a balmy 40 degrees (F.) for you and I seems one flake short of a blizzard in DC.
It is part of an unbearable trend of aggrandizing the trivial that has reached almost maniacal proportions of late.
gateley
(62,683 posts)have a head covering there.
I think generally, like gloves, women wore hats to protect them from the sun (ditto parasols). Back then the only people with sun-darkened skin were those who labored in the fields. The upper crust was milky white. Then Coco Chanel made it chick to hang out on the Riviera and people who had the means to do so were sporting tans. Always emulating the upper classes, the masses started getting tanned, too. No need to protect oneself from the sun, no need for hats and gloves (or parasols!).
It's interesting, too, that years ago they equated girth with wealth -- only the wealthy could overeat to their hearts' content. It was the poor and starving who were gaunt. Now that table has turned, too. Only those who are comfortable can afford to buy "good" food and steer clear of the manufactured stuff, which IMO is the cause of our obesity situation.
That's my view of history, anyway.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Now I am neither and envy neither and still hate hats.
Which now takes us to fish. If we weren't obligated to eat fish so often, Fridays, Lent, Advent, etc., maybe fish would have lasted longer. I love fish now, didn't then, and it's so expensive.
gateley
(62,683 posts)They took it so seriously before then that if a woman didn't have a hat, she had to put her husband's handkerchief (something else that seems to have disappeared) on her head. At least at my Parish they did!
The only fish I ate was tuna fish sandwiches -- something I still love. My mother and brother loved fish and had it, but my dad only liked crab, shrimp and lobster -- nothing with bones. I was always daddy's little girl so I stayed away from fish, too, but never liked the texture of shrimp or lobster. So on Friday nights my brother and mom would be having sole or salmon, my dad crab or lobster, and I'd have a tuna or peanut butter sandwich.
I've since acquired a taste for some fish (though still not shrimp or lobster -- the texture) and as you note, it's so expensive!
I love hats, though -- something I did pick up from my mother.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)One.
I rarely wear jackets or coats. I wear a pashmin.
I almost always wear hats and I have quite a collection.