Hat Flash Mob in Union Square, San Francisco, Ready Go!

[Paul-ette]

Hat Flash Mob on Sunday the 15th in Union Square! We want to fill the square with people wearing hats, looking nice, and doing normal things, so we can take photos and prove that it’s possible to go back and embrace some old traditions! We are trying to bring the hat back and make life what it used to be prior to 1960: Nobody left the house without wearing a hat. We are only asking for fifteen minutes of your time from 12:00 until 12:15 in the afternoon, come to Union Square, have a cuppa coffee, read the paper, chat with someone, wear any old hat you like! We will be bringing a cart of hats for people to throw on if you don’t have one and all you have is a baseball cap. *cough*

Let’s Bring the Hat Back! Please come!

P.S. If it’s raining it’s automatically canceled!

~ Paulette

 

[Colby Jack]

I can't wait to see the pictures of this!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

I'm cheerin' for yuh:eusa_clap , if I lived closed I'd come.

 

[feltfan]

Fedora Loungers with vintage hats meet at the column/statue in the
center of Union Square? Not certain I can make it, but I'll do my best.

And BTW, if someone is curious to see in person a hat I have posted here, drop
me a PM and I will see if I can wear it to the event.

 

[Slim Portly]

P.S. If it’s raining it’s automatically canceled!

Because heaven forbid a hat should serve its intended function!

 

[marvelgoose]

and if it rains show up anyway because a real felt hat likes the rain!

If this wasn't 3,000 miles away....

 

[Paul-ette]

Though we know hats are made for the rain, but we know that if it rains we'll have half the turn out, and the pictures won't come out very well. If it rains we'll do it again!

~ Paulette

 

[4and1]

If it weren't for the distance the rain wouldn't stop me. Good luck with this, it is a great idea. Who thought of it?

 

[texashatman]

Great idea. I wish somebody would organize something like this in Houston. I would but like everybody else I'm just too danged busy for organizing!

 

[Paul-ette]

I came up with this idea after this man, who allegedly doesn't even like hats, came into Paul's with a beautiful old black and white photo of the Midwinter's Fair in Golden Gate Park in 1893, and everyone was wearing a hat. Flash mobs are very popular in SF, and it would be easy to stir up some talk if everyone in Union Square was wearing a hat. Plus a lot of fun and good photos!

Paulette

 

[djhatman]

Wish I lived in San Francisco. Ok maybe not but I hope it goes great and we can see pics soon after.

 

[djgo-cat-go]

A plane-ticket to SanFransisco please... anyone...

 

[Mario]

A plane-ticket to SanFransisco please... anyone...

One more for me, please!

Good luck anyway, Paulette!

 

[KeyGrip]

Any pilgrims are welcome to crash on my couch.

 

[Vanessa]

Any hat dances planned? You won't get internet airplay without it.

 

[fiddletown]

I'm glad I just happened to drop in and saw this. I'll try to make it.

 

[CRH]

Any pilgrims are welcome to crash on my couch.

Can't make it but I do hope you end up with a Pilgrim - wouldn't it be cool if he/she was wearing a Pilgrim - on your couch, KeyGrip!


:eusa_clap

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

Do it! Do it! Go! Go!
(Here I am shouting offa the toppa my lungs carrying waves of sound accross the Atlantic Ocean, accross the eastern seaboard, accross the Mississippi river valley, the great plains, Rocky Mountains, potato fields of Idaho, swooping down into ...The City...).

How about a live webcam session with live feedback from the board?

Paul

 

[Paul-ette]

We tentatively have a videographer! Which is exciting. The more people the better. Keep spreading the word!

Paulette

 

[KeyGrip]

Unfortunately I can't make it because I have to attend a strike tomorrow. Next time.