Lone Star Park, Kentucky Derby Day, May 1, 2010

What better place to wear at hat than the horse races. Kentucky Derby Day at Lone Star Park is a favorite gathering for Hat Band members. Margarita has access to a reserved area close to the track that was perfect for us. What a fun day.

Laurel, Loretta, Tasha, Kelley and Suzanne


Pink ladies Suzanne and Margarita

One of our two tables

Laurel and hubby Kerry choosing horses

Benita with Pam, our Chicago member

This is a lady from the table next to us looking stylish

The hat contest was the biggest ever!

Pam, Suzanne and Jean at the hat contest
Our hats were rather tame compared to some

Esther and Oshie styling and enjoying champagne

Benita, Jean and Loretta

Kelly, Margarita and Tasha

Pam in her fabulous feather hat and Benita looking pretty

January 23, 2010 Fashion Game

Stephanie hosted the Dallas Hat Band in her home on Janaury 23 and we played Fashion, a board game that covered the many aspects of fashion. Yikes, it was HARD. Some of the questions were rather obscure. We had fun and had a good laugh at some of the questions. Stephanie had yummy snacks.

Joyce and Betsy

Margarita and Jeanne

Maureen and Nicole

Stephanie, our hostess with the mostest, and Jeanne


and the whole group together.....

Maureen, Stephanie, Betsy, Joyce, Margarita, Jeanne, Suzanne and Nicole

November 7, 2009

For the November meeting of the Dallas Hat Band, we visited Fashion on Main and the Dallas Arts District.


We joined Costume Society of America (CSA) members at UNT's Fashion on Main. The special exhibit was entitled Painting the Town, 1920s High Style. It featured ensembles from the wardrobe of New York designer Regina Kobler and images of her 1923 designs as well as evening attire from the Texas Fashion Collection and the private collect of Caralee Smith.

After the Fashion on Main exhibit, we went to the Nasher Sculpture Center. We had a nice lunch in Cafe Nasher by Wolfgang Puck with some of the CSA members.

We strolled through the outdoor exhbit at the Nasher and then went indoors and looked at the scale models of contemporary architecture around the world designed by prize winning architect Norman Foster.

Rush Hour by George Segal, 1983

Jonathan Borofsky, Walking to the Sky, 2004

Although this looks horizontal in the photo, it is actually vertical, reaching towards the sky.


From the Nasher, we walked across the street to the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The exhibit there is Yeohlee: Design for Now.

Rhonda, Nicole, Suzanne

Rhonda, Edie (President of SW region of CSA) and Nicole



Here are a few photos of the new Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Art District.

Winspear Opera House

Meeting at the Movie: The September Issue

On September 20, 2009, a group of Hat Band members met up at the movie theater to see The September Issue, the new movie about Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the production of the magazine’s giant annual September issue.

Benita, Margarita, Nicole, Jeanne, Rhonda,

all looking fabulous

Here are some comments about the movie:

-----"This movie is so not about fashion, but more of a look at the personalities and behaviors of the people behind the scenes. I was and am now absolutely fascinated by Grace Coddington, the magazine's shoot stylist. Definitely not a "fluff" movie. Oh, and I am now not going to be so hard on myself for not looking like those models and women in the magazines. The movie did not hide the fact of the touchups and airbrushing that is done to make these women look they way they do." -Margarita

-----"I was struck by what appeared to be a genuinely warm relationship between Anna Wintour and her daughter. It was in stark contrast to Anna’s interactions with everyone else shown in the movie." -Rhonda

-----"I enjoyed the documentary. I had forgotten about women in NY and their appearance. Except for Anna Wintour, ALL of the women working for Vogue desperately needed makeup, a good hair cut, moisturizer. That is the way they women looked when I was in NY in the ‘80’s." -Benita

Lunch at Hattie's, August 22, 2009

The Dallas Hat Band lunched at Hattie's in the Bishop Arts District on Saturday, August 22. We had a wonderful lunch in a white linen tablecloth setting. Kelley announced to all of us that she is getting married. Congratulations Kelley! After lunch we shopped at some of the boutiques in the area. We all looked fabulous as you can see.

Margarita, Jeanne, Jean, Maureen, Kelley, Carly, Benita, Nicole, Paula, Suzanne

Dallas Museum of Art, June 14, 2009

Our June meeting was a docent guided tour of the DMA, with the focus on fashion in art. We met for a quick lunch at the DMA and then we had a few minutes to step outside and enjoy some of the Dallas Art Fest that was filling the streets with people.

Welcome to our newest member, Oshie, who attended for the first time.

There was a fun exhibit of art cars.

Benita looking cool and summery in front of the Brass Van art car.

This car is completely covered with yarn, applied in a very artistic design. Sitting beside it is the artist, working on a little repair.

Nicole, Betsy and Joyce looking at the yarn art car.



Suzanne and Joyce standing by the Beatles art car.

The Women Rock Art Car

Can you name these women?

Maureen walking into the Museum

Nicole with our docent, Christina

The Group

Oshie, Betsy, Nicole, Suzanne, Maureen, Benita, Joyce

Lone Star Park May 2, 2009

The Kentucky Derby Day at Lone Star Park is of special interest to the Hat Band. It is a fun event we have attended in the past that provides an opportunity to wear and showcase our beautiful hats. It is also fun to enter the hat competition as well as watch the horses. However, this year we opted to do the Swiss Avenue Historic Tour of Homes. Three of our members, Kelley, Margarita and Shannon, attended and here are a few photos.

Kelley pensively watching the ponies.

Margarita with Glynis, a Fort Worth attorney.

One of the funny hats, poking fun at the swine flu outbreak.

Judge wearing a Cassie Macgregor hat.

Glynis