Activities
Both Red and Pink Hatters often wear very elaborately decorated hats and attention-getting fashion accessories, such as a feather boa, at the group's get-togethers. The Society's events vary depending on the chapter, but one of the most common pastimes among Red Hatters is attending or hosting a tea party. Other activities, freely chosen and planned by the individual chapters, include crafts, games, theater or cinema trips, music-making (often on kazoos), and various outings.
Chapters often work together to host large regional events, and Hatquarters hosts several official Red Hat Society events each year.
The official Red Hat Society day is April 25 each year.
In 2006, a musical titled Hats! The Musical (book by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and Anthony Dodge) made its debut.
The organization has published several books:
- Designer Scrapbooks the Red Hat Society Way
- Red Hat Society: Fun and Friendship after Fifty
- Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines: Stories of Inspiration and Hattitude
- Red Hats and the Women Who Wear Them
- Sassy, Classy, and Still Sparkling
- The Red Hat Society Cookbook and Eat Dessert First (both featuring recipes submitted by members.)
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