Point of Difference
9 April 2007
Yesterday was Easter Sunday so it made sense that I saw a woman wearing a fancy hat.
But the actual hat didn’t make much sense at all.
Think Jean Paul Gaultier’s conical bra look on someone’s head, i.e. two pointed cones standing tall and thrusting heavenward in the manner of Mr. Spock’s pointy ears.
When I asked myself, why that hat? I came up with: Perhaps the conical portions of the hat afford the wearer a direct line to God through those dual-points due to some sort of in-built radar along lines of a supernatural-detector feature.
My theory somehow presupposes the wearer believes in God and is fashioning a closer connection, which of course would make sense on Easter Sunday particularly if the wearer did believe in God.
Fashion and God don’t usually go together unless one believes that artists like JP Gaultier are creators extraordinaire and thus worthy of the distinction: God-like.
(Frankly, I never liked JP’s conical bra look, not on Madonna, nor on that woman’s head.)
If I manage to put an outfit together that works such that it makes me feel like a million dollars, and elicits a few complimentary pervs, I’ve been known to utter, “Oh God, thank you for keeping me off the worst-dressed list today.”
However, common sense suggests a good look isn’t the result of divining otherworldly help when getting dressed, or the outfit alone, but one’s overall attitude!
Hat woman had attitude, because I mean anyone who wears purple velvet conical shapes on their head with an air of dignity and reverence is all over total comfort with self.
Either that, or I missed the message completely and she was in fancy dress as a mutant Easter bunny with soft, purple pointy ears instead of pink floppy ones.
All this is by way of saying that I really don’t fully understand why many American women have an Easter Sunday hat fetish.
Maybe we’re a bunch of heathens in Australia, after all Easter is a last-hooray-at-the-beach-holiday before autumn sets in. And its five days not just Sunday! So the only hats you’ll see girls down under wearing at Easter are beach hats.
Whether it’s velvet pointed cones, pink floppy ears, or a sun-hat, the point is, each to her own and respect for differences.
Amen.
