It is as if there are three universal black church rules: (1) there shall be women who wear hats at every Sunday service; (2) some of the women will choose a hat in the exact shade of their dress ...

He is encouraging attendees to wear their own crowns on Sunday and show off their finest fancy church hats. The event, which is free, is part of the Capital Area District Library's celebration of ...

For a long time, church hats were the domain for older women. Recently, though, hats have become more fashionable, and younger women are donning them, said Ann Dillon, 80, who’s owned Ann’s ...

And, therefore, when women went to church, they filled their churches with crowns of all sizes, designs and sizes. Gail Lowe, who created a 2000 Smithsonian exhibit on African-American faith, said ...

The evolution of church hat style evolved from African cultures to fashion icons like Madam C.J. Walker and now to second-generation milliners, designers and makers of women’s hats, like Meeka ...

For generations, church sanctuaries across the nation on Sunday mornings, especially in black churches and especially on Easter, transformed into a collage of hats: straw ones, felt ones, velvet ...

They are church ladies, tried and true, pillars of stability, portals to history and wearers of fantastic headgear. Woods has assembled quite a church-hat collection, “about 20 or 30” by her ...

The New York State Museum is looking for hats Black women wore to church as part of an exhibit. The museum and the Rapp Road Historical Association are teaming up to collect and preserve the ...