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When you went to a wedding, a hat was a 'must.' But even then Mrs. Oliver kept two. One... was of feathers. It fitted closely to the head and stood up very well to squalls of rain if they should overtake one unexpectedly.... The other, and more elaborate hat, was definitely for attending a wedding held on a Saturday afternoon in summer. It had flowers and chiffon and a covering of yellow net attached with mimosa.

This is from Agatha Christie novel Elephants Can Remember from 1972. In England, hats often are still a must for wedding. In the US, they are only an option, and not one often taken.

If you do wear hat to a formal social event, everyone will come up to you and talk about it, thus revealing how many women long for the chance to wear hats, but haven't the courage in face of the general abandonment of hats in the 1960s.

It was big hair and lots of hairspray which first undermined hats in the late 1950s. Then, they became seen as old-fashioned, and the generation wearing them died out, thus we lost one of our more amusing fashion options. Sigh.

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The fourth hat was the most expensive of the lot and it extraordinary advantages about it. Possibly, Mrs. Oliver sometimes thought, because it was so expensive. It consisted of a kind of turban of various layers of contrasting velvets, all of rather becoming pastel shades which go with everything.

I want this hat. I have long been charmed by silk velvets in all colors, but the idea of draped pastels sounds lovely.

Turbans showed up on 18th Century Europeans who were charmed by headgear from abroad. Draping a turban from a length of cloth is one thing and takes some practice, while the made-up turban with all its layers carefully sewn and then tacked down is easy to wear. Although in this passage from the 1972 novel Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie, her heroine, Mrs. Adriane Oliver tries the turban on backwards, and sideways, before agreeing with her assistant that it looks best worn the way it was designed to be worn: with the front side up front.

Mrs. Oliver is of an older generation, used to wearing hats to public events, a practice that died out as this generation died out. Young women who embraced big hair in the late 1950s did not have room on their heads for hats, so hats became old-fashioned and rejected by the young. Thus depriving us of one of the most amusing of fashion accessories. Mrs. Oliver wears this turban to a luncheon with a soft, wool jersey dress in puce, a pale reddish-brown touched with grey, which sounds perfect for a turban made up of mixed pastels.

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[resenha] OS ELEFANTES NÃO ESQUECEM • Agatha Christie • @harpercollinsbrasil Logo nas primeiras páginas de Os Elefantes Não Esquecem somos apresentados a Sra. Oliver, uma famosa escritora de romances policiais da Inglaterra que, ao ser convidada para um evento em sua homenagem, contrariando o costume (que era não comparecer a estes eventos) decide por ir. O evento começa de maneira agradável e a Sra. Ariadne Olive está se divertindo até o momento em que uma mulher desconhecida, que se apresenta como Sra. Burton-Cox, faz um questionamento bastante indiscreto e deselegante a respeito de uma tragédia que aconteceu há 12 anos atrás com a família Ravenscroft, onde o casal, aparentemente, se matou (um pacto de morte?) deixando dois filhos órfãos. A verdade é que a Sra. Burton-Cox atreve-se a fazer esse questionamento por saber que a Sra. Oliver era madrinha de Célia Ravenscroft, filha do casal morto, que está preste a se casar com Desmond Burton-Cox, seu filho. A Sra. Burton-Cox crê que, por ser madrinha da jovem, a escritora possa ter alguma informação a mais por ter conhecido intimamente o casal. Entretanto, este questionamento provoca um verdadeiro desconforto e constrangimento na Sra. Oliver ao passo que, também, atiça a curiosidade da escritora. Ariadne Oliver fica tão instigada que acaba procurando seu amigo e famoso detetive Monsieur Poirot. Ambos acabam "firmando" uma parceria para tentar descobrir o que aconteceu no passado e o que levou o casal Ravenscroft a aparecer morto em uma colina. Para desvendar esse mistério Poirot terá que ir em busca dos arquivos legais do caso, ao passo que a Sra. Oliver terá que visitar "elefantes", ou seja, pessoas que eram amigos íntimos do casal e que possam saber de algo sobre a tragédia. Não posso dizer que Os Elefantes Não Esquecemi foi um livro perfeito, porque não o considerei assim, mas foi uma leitura surpreendente em vários graus, pois conheci a Sra. Oliver, adorei a parceria entre ela e Poirot, e também por ser o primeiro livro que li de Poirot solucionando um mistério do passado #OsElefantesNaoEsquecem #ElephantsCanRemember #resenha #PJLendoAgathaChristie2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-RiRmbjnYG/?igshid=ej15m49voz3k

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