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Saturday Oct 18
• RSVP CYNTHIA
for 10/25 Halloween lunch at Babe's.
Wednesday Oct 22
• JANA'S BIRTHDAY
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Queen Sparkle Plenty:
Cynthia H.
Lady Fugedaboudit:
Arlene C.
Lady Luna:
Bobbi K.
Lady Camellia:
Estella H.
Lady Dye:
Etta M.
Lady Foo Foo:
Fayrene B.
Francie Schmantzie:
Fran V.
MADame redHATTER:
Frankie V.
Lady Luck:
Helen T.
Lady Lily of the Carmel Valley:
Jackie N.
Lady LaDeeDa:
Jana M.
Biker Goddess:
Janie R.
Spycee:
Jean S.
Lady J:
Jo Ann H.
Jet:
Judy W.
Princess Hat-A-Few:
Katheleen L.
Title Pending:
Linda O.
Lady Bubbles:
Madeline C.
Lady Tweety:
Martha N.
Baroness of Bargains:
Sharon A.
Lady Hoity Toity:
Vickie H.
RE-GALS PHOTOS RED HAT SOCIETY NORTH TEXAS QUEENS CIRCLE JENNY JOSEPH POEM RED HAT RECIPES SHUFFLIN' SHOES CLOGGERS CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
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A registered chapter of the Red Hat Society
Our chapter consists of women from Dallas, Plano, Richardson, Garland, Mesquite and Frisco, Texas.
The ONLY responsibility of the Big D Re-Gals is to have fun!
This ''disorganization'' has no official rules. Of course, to be a Red Hatter, one must be fifty years old or older and wear a red hat and a clashing purple ensemble at all meetings to keep up the spirit and purpose of the ''disorganization''. Women under fifty must wear a pink hat and lavender attire until THE BIRTHDAY. This adds an element of fun to aging, which we think is invaluable to women in our society who have learned to dread aging and avoid it at all costs. We believe aging should be something anticipated with excitement, not something to dread. So we all dress up in our red hats and purple clothes and just have fun.
Please view our photo albums to see pictures of past events.
Charter Members Cynthia, Joan, Judi, Sharon, Mimi and Etta
at our Dis-Organization Meeting
Cynthia and Sharon clogged in the Red Hat Talent Show
at the Plaza Theatre with Shufflin' Shoes buddies
Amy and Linda, shown here with featured entertainer,
Johnny Rockit.
QFTD Vickie selling raffle tickets to Jean
Martha, Linda and Sophie shopping
Good stuff on the sale table
Lots of raffle goodies
While visiting a friend in Tucson several years ago, Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, California, impulsively bought a bright red fedora at a thrift shop, for no other reason than that it was cheap and, she thought, quite dashing. A year or two later she read the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph, which depicts an older woman in purple clothing with a red hat. Sue Ellen felt an immediate kinship with Ms. Joseph. She decided that her birthday gift to her dear friend, Linda Murphy, would be a vintage red hat and a copy of the poem. She has always enjoyed whimsical decorating ideas, so she thought the hat would look nice hanging on a hook next to the framed poem. Linda got so much enjoyment out of the hat and the poem that Sue Ellen gave the same gift to another friend, then another, then another.
One day it occurred to these friends that they were becoming a sort of "Red Hat Society" and that perhaps they should go out to tea...in full regalia. They decided they would find purple dresses which didn't go with their red hats to complete the poem's image. The tea on April 25, 1998, was a smashing success.
Soon, each of them thought of another woman or two she wanted to include, and they bought more red hats. Their group swelled to eighteen, and they began to encourage other interested people to start their own chapters. (Eighteen women don't fit well around a tea table.) Linda passed along the idea to a friend of hers in Florida, and their first "sibling" group was born. In July of 2000, Romantic Homes magazine did a story about these two groups, and Sue Ellen began receiving e-mails from other women who wanted to know how they could join the fun. As of November 2007, the Red Hat Society has over 30,000 chapters in every state of the Union and twenty-five plus countries. RHS has become an international sisterhood. See www.redhatsociety.com for more information about RHS.
How The Red Hat Society Started
Linda & Sue Ellen at the first Red Hat tea, wearing the original hats
that started this whole wonderful Society.
April 25, 1998
