On Thu, 16 May 2019 12:24:05 +0100, "Timothy Collinson (via tml list)"
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 00:03, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fabulous hats, I sorta get. But what are fabulous attractors?
>>
>
>Fascinators?  They're things women (generally, but not exclusively I'd
>imagine) wear in their hair.  Presumably to "fascinate" potential mates.
>Royal Ascot (a horse race [1]) is probably the place to see them.  They
>seem to range from the relatively sane to the utterly outrageous.

There's a comic strip that runs on Sundays in some (many?) US newspapers
called "Curtis"; it's sorta about the life of a borderline-middle-class
black family in a borderline urban neighborhood (borderline in the sense
that it's not an urban slum/ghetto, but only just barely). Being a US
comic, the family professes a Christianity that would likely be recognized
as US Southern Baptist Convention; it is a cliché that the artist, Ray
Billingsley, exploits to good effect that on Sundays, to go to church, the
SBC Church Ladies get all dressed up, and include hats that range from the
attention-drawing to the outrageous - and Mr Billingsley often draws some
of them, with Curtis's comments (and his little brother Barry's attempts to
stifle ROFLing). I should note that when I go visit my mother to help her
with the house on Sundays, I go past a SBC church, and the cliché exists
for a reason!

Easter Sunday is an especially "good" day to go hat-watching...

>Lighted diodes? Fishing lures? Something else?

I haven't actually seen lights, but some of the overdone glitterfests are
almost as good...

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