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Hatitude! You won't find that word in a dictionary, but mention it to virtually any African American woman, chances are she will know exactly what you are talking about. It's about personal style. It's about high fashion. And it is about the attitude you achieve when wearing a hat, a crown, that speaks for you and about you, without saying a single word.
This tradition of African American women connected to their fine hats goes back genrations. Drawing from I Corinthians 11: 5, 6 which refers to the importance of a woman covering her head at worship, a woman's hat (often referred to as her "crown") evolved from not only being a statement of spiritual faith to also becoming a statement of that that woman's arrival to the fullness of who she has become.
The Wearing of Our Hats, Our Crowns As I look through every moment of our history, we as black women have worn hats. We have marched in them, we "sat-in" in them and we worship in them.
I remember my aunt wearing a baby pink pillbox with tiny silk flowers all over the hat, just to go to the market. I remember the First Lady of our church in a different hat every Sunday. I remember the first white hat my mother ever bought at the hat shop on Central Avenue. These are my remembrances. That which inspires me and although hats change in shape and size over the years, on thing remains the same our love for them. They are our hats to hold on to...
Rosebud, hats to hold on to...
Harriet Rosebud
Designer & Milliner
Harlem, New York City
Consumers if you would like to purchase the full size original versions of the Rosebud hats, please visit Rosebud of New York
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