Talking Through My Hats Quotes

“A hat is the expression of a woman’s soul. It is something she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It is her challenge to the world. She does not wear it to keep warm, or to provide a shade from the sun, though it may do those things too. She wears it to please a husband or a sweetheart, or to get one. She wears it to make other women jealous, sometimes, and sometimes she wears it to get a job. It is the keynote of her personality, the finishing touch that makes her look beautiful, and smart, and sure of herself, if it is the right hat.”
― Lilly Daché, Talking Through My Hats

“Believe me, I have made many hats. Perhaps I have made more hats than any other one woman in the world. And with each hat is a story. It is the story of the woman who wore the hat, and why she bought it; the people she loved and the people she hated; the places she went and the things that happened to her, perhaps because of the hat.
You see, a woman’s hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: “See, this is what I am like!~” or – “This is how I should like to be.”
― Lilly Daché, Talking Through My Hats

“. . . . I think of the women who have bought my hats. Some have been duchesses and some have been queens. Some have been famous actresses and some have been no better than they should be. Some have been great ladies of society, and some have been shopgirls and stenographers, not famous at all. These last I like to think of best, because a hat to them was worth going without lunches for a month.
So many hats. So many women. They would make a picture story of our times.”
― Lilly Daché, Talking Through My Hats