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Look out, Thibodaux. The Red Hatters are coming.
The Les Royale Queen Council, a newly-formed Red Hat Queen Council, is hosting a Harvest Hoot Saturday at the Armadillo Club and Burma Hall. The event is slated to begin at 2 p.m. Admission is $25, and is open to all Red Hat and Pink Hat Society members.
The Red Hat Society, a social organization for women over 50 with chapters in the Tri-parishes, has origins as interesting as the distinctive garb the ladies wear.
English poet Jenny Joseph wrote a poem back in the early 1960s that depicts an older woman in purple clothing and a red hat doing whatever she pleased. In time, more women adopted the philosophy and formed a society.
“Most people who are over 50 have completed their careers and raised their children, and now they interact socially with their friends and fellow red hatters,” Red Hatter Cheryl Belanger said. “We normally eat out on a monthly basis for our meeting. Sometimes we do different things like hold an old-fashioned tea party or go to the theater – anything to have fun.
“In the Red Hat Society, we throw most ‘rules’ to the wind, but we still remember our manners,” Belanger added. “When we gather in public, we believe in being courteous to each other and to those around us. After all, we are ladies and members of a group like no other.”
Belanger is a part of Terrebonne’s Les Royale Queen Council, a newly formed Red Hat Queen Council. The council has five chapters. Belanger is the Queen of the THS Class of 1968 Chapeau Crimson chapter.
Other founding Les Royale Queen Council Queens are Susan Brown of the Les Belle de Louisiane chapter; Gloria Landry of the Dazzling Dames chapter; Linda Moore of the La Tea Dames chapter and Billie Wilson of the Les Jolies Dames Avecles Chapeaux Rouges chapter.
Belanger said Red Hat ladies and Pinkies should don casual wear to Saturday’s event – jeans and tops or western wear in their respective organization’s colors.
“The ladies will dance, play bingo, have old-fashioned outdoor games and hayrides,” she said. “There will also be a parade of prizes and a raffle. But no Red Hatter or Pinkie will go home empty-handed. Every guest will have a goodie bag to take home.”
The Hoot will have a DJ playing a mix of musical genres from 2 to 9:30 p.m. Velvet Sky will take over with live entertainment until the last Red Hat Society member has left the building.
For more information call Belanger at (985) 791-8939.
Les Royale Queen Council founders are (from left) Linda Moore of the La Tea Dames chapter; Billie Wilson of the Les Jolies Dames Avecles Chapeaux Rouges chapter; Susan Brown of the Les Belle de Louisiane chapter; Cheryl Belanger of the THS Class of 1968 Chapeau Crimson chapter and Gloria Landry of the Dazzling Dames chapter. * Photo by KEYON K. JEFF
