GREENFIELD — The table of seven gray-haired ladies was hard to miss. Decked in their signature red headwear and a variety of purple tops, the members of a local Red Hat Society cackled and conversed ...

~ About 350 members from 29 chapters attended the event at the University Center. A vibrating blur of red and purple adorned the University Center Ballroom on Saturday when about 350 members from 29 ...

Lu Holfelder was taken aback when she first saw a group of the Red Hatters at a restaurant a couple of years ago. "All of a sudden all these ladies walked in with the red hats and I thought, what is ...

Red hats are sweeping the country, fueled by the formation of the Red Hat Society in 1998. It all came about because of a poem written by Jenny Joseph which begins, "When I am an old woman,/I shall ...

A few weeks ago Valerie Harrison took her young daughter for a ride on the new light-rail line. The doors opened to a sea of purple and red and a lot of laughter. "I asked what it was all about, and ...

"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me." — From the poem "Warning," by Jenny Joseph They dress in shades of purple and don flamboyant red hats ...

The Red Hat Society-named for a Jenny Joseph poem that encourages women to adopt more independence and daring as they age-continues its juggernaut with this follow-up to Cooper's bestseller, The Red ...

While New Orleans is no stranger to costuming — often for little or no reason — the hundreds of women walking around town in bright red hats and loud purple outfits might have some scratching their ...

Their white hats stood in stark contrast to the red fire engine. Adorned in cowboy hats, ball caps and Panama hats, all shades of white, 13 members of the White Hats toured the new fire station on ...

The members of the Fabulous Foxy Fedoras Red Hat Society look forward to their gatherings every month. Some of the ladies circle the dates on their calendars. If one of the get-togethers is canceled ...

Officers of the Wilkes-Barre Area Queens Council of the Red Hat Society who planned the event are shown from left: Jane Scott, Vice President, Romaine Stout, President, Mary Reynolds, Treasurer, and ...