Swiss Avenue Home Tour on May 8, 2010

For the second year, we had a fabulous time at the tour of the historical homes on Swiss Avenue. Below is the group shot in front of Maureen's home. What a great looking group! Suzanne, Stephanie, Joyce, Nicole, Maureen, Margarita, Jeanie, Cynthia, Benita, Stephanie, Carly, Esther, Oshie and Kelley

This house had a garden tour. Gee, I wish my back yard looked like that. What a great area for entertaining.

Benita and Carly

Cynthia and Benita

Maureen and Benita

Oshie, Carly and Cynthia

Stephanie and Carly

Stephanie and Esther

We had a delicious pot luck buffet at Maureen's house

Waiting to get into one of the old mansions

More garden tour

This home owner used a megaphone to tell us about his house

Savage Park, the vendors set up in this area

Mad Hatters Tea, Dallas Arboretum, April 22, 2010

Although this was not an "official" Hat Band event, I emailed members to determine interest. As it turned out, only Oshie and I attended. It was so fun and so special, we immediately started planning to attend next year. The hats were creative, beautiful, outrageous and fun.

This was the 22nd annual event. It began with a champagne reception, and silent auction followed by a fashion show of fabulous fashion from Carolina Herrera, Jimmy Choo, Ralph Lauren and St. John and the winners of the hat competition were announced. Then we sat down for a lovely luncheon.

This event funds the Women's Council of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. With the funds, the council designed and constructed the Women's Garden, and now maintains it. Here I am with Sharon, the chair of the Madhatter's Tea. I made her hat.

Ladies visiting, looking good and viewing silent auction items.



At the fashion show, Oshie and I are sitting with Veree, looking very chic.

The luncheon

Isn't this a wonderful hat??

The fashion show

At the fashion show

This beautiful dress was made entirely of flowers!!

Notice the bird cage hat to the right. It actually had a live bird in it!

A Dallas Cowboys Stadium hat.

Burlap outfits, going green.

This flat pink hat was one of the winners in the hat competition. The categories were Most Creative, Best Vintage/Elegant, Most Whimsical/Outrageous, Best of Show using event theme of Dahlias and Divas.

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