Fishing Hats of the Rich and Famous
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Sure, why not? I bet this will be the bestest blog post about fishing hats of the rich and famous that the world has ever seen. Because there’s a googlewhack if ever I heard one. Note we are not talking about hats made of fish; we’ve already covered those!
Charlie Chaplin in Ireland:
Cuba Gooding Junior, whose dapper felt chapeau does not agree with his funky jams At. All. and someone has to tell him so and it might as well be me: 
Click onward to see Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Barons, Models, and assorted Royalty:
Winston Churchill just likes to watch (wearing Cuba Gooding’s hat):
A comical, creative, but sadly obscure and probably penniless fisherwoman and her fabulous newspaper bonnet in Denmark: 
Nina Dyer, tragic and stunning ex-wife of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and Baron Thyssen, in a Slim Aarons photo:
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, goes for cover in a heather-sprigged floppy hat: 
Jack Nicklaus in Scotland wears a bucket hat of the type made famous by Gilligan, but turns the brim down for seriousness:
Ed McMahon and Bob Newhart, and don’t they just look like a barrel of laughs? 
Papa Hemingway, who knew a thing or two about hats, with his fly-decorated cap in Cuba:
Etonians, somewhat overdressed, as always: 
Some dapper Italian monks. No, they are not cowboys in dresses:
The Queen Mum again, back before she was anyone’s Mum, sporting a fashionable cloche and an impressive salmon (or is it trout?) in New Zealand: 
Her husbandThe Prince of Wales, the then- later Duke of Windsor (second from left, getting a mooby rub) and there is NO EXCUSE for that dopey hat, Your Highness:
A pair of flappers take the Winston Churchill approach, with an ostentatious wink at the Etonians (not the first time a pair of flappers have ostentatiously winked at Etonians, if you catch my drift): 
A veritable finishing school of fishing hats in London:
Baron Rowton, on the left, in Norway. Now we know who the Queen Mum mugged for her hat. And her skirt: 
More fishy royals than you can shoot in a barrel. There’s a tasteless Russian joke in there somewhere:
And last but not least, Ava Gardner, who seems to have taken to heart the biblical injunction to be a fisher of men: 
Nice. But the Queen Mum’s husband, before he was King George VI, was Duke of York. His brother was Prince of Wales, then King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor.
That photo of the Duke of Windsor is not the “then” Duke of Windsor, it is the Duke of Windsor, and he was married to Wallis Simpson, not the Queen Mum. The Queen Mum was married to King George the Sixth, who was, before his brother (the Duke of Windsor) abdicated, the Duke of York.The Queen Mother would be turning in her grave if she knew her name had been coupled with that of her brother-in-law, whom, by all accounts, she never forgave for forcing her husband to become king.
D’oh, good catch: I should have known that. Fixed.
Ava Gardner demonstrates that beautiful can wear any ridiculous get-up and still look gorgeous.