FOUR in a MIRROR.

Ethiopian woman of the Borana people.

European Playboy model, Angie, is an ideal dreamt into presence!

Esha Gupta is an Indian film actress, model, and former Miss India International of 2007. 

Erykah Badu's hat cocked ace deuce & a quarter.

photo by Rober Kisby on Getty Images. 2011.

Sunlight and Spotlight, she Fine!

Helen Mirren enchanting in the Rhapsody magazine, January 2018 issue.

Helen Mirren in blue dress has her unspeakable form, beauty and presence. . .

HAT Fashion, HAUTE Couture

Me encanta ese diseño I love that design! 

Hat coolly worn by this woman is different in respect to her African heritage. It feels different, her style of being from her essence; from white women's projections via fashion it is unattainable this essence African women embody! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

"Hat coolly worn by this woman, made by Shasa and the pretty legs enhanced by Agaci Spikes heels and the short dress by Pull & Bear makes for a sweet taste of sight!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Style in the spirit of 3 Black women...

Hat worn by a woman with the large butterfly tattoo sets her apart from

the average fare, as an exceptional consideration."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

hat and jeans. La créatrice de cette marqué Yanai est la Zimbabwéenne designer,

Tapiwa Zandile Mudekunye 

hat worn smartly by a middle aged Black woman !!!!

Ah, those hats! Eight of them.

Anne Vyalitsyna modeling either the hat, the look, the shades, the cloth. Don't know.

But, what a model!

Anne Bancroft, actress

Ana Cheri, former Playboy model now a fitness trainer just before the new year of 2017.

Anne Heche visiting Guggenheim in New York 2014

Archie Panjabi donned a hat

Asian woman cool in this gear.

Elegant Black lady by Girl With Curves on Flickr.

"Hats or haute couture, as perceived by regular folks on the streets in the 1950's created its own language: envy."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories  

Elegance as defined.

hats still have relevance.

“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.” ― C. JoyBell C. 

Elegance of a woman is the stillness of her elegance, the coolness of her temperament and the way she moves easily within... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/22/17

Sophia Loren on the set of 'Judith' in 1965 wearing her trademark accessories,

dark shades, and a wide brimmed sun hat!!!!

“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!”   ― C. JoyBell C.

Elegant Black Lady defined and ready for church at best,

taking on the world of fashion as if it were a walk!

“The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.” ― Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men

"Older Black women, as she does, question futility with a look, rebukes trifleness with a look, and in her eyes tells a story a 'man' needs to hear." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

What Do You Stand For & Stand Against?

[The] Flag of a country in internal conflict with its meaning. Its definition of freedom is contradicted by its limits to freedom, and misuse of the word to take from others land and life. God Bless America? What a statement! It is full of blood and denial made beneath honor from the strength of its chief document: the Doctrine of Discovery! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/10/17 

[The] African influenced bikini creates a style born from within. On the shore of the Atlantic it is a poignant verse in this moment answering the cries and questions from the Africans lost in the ocean during the Middle Passage. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10/11/17 

Flag colors of the Black Liberation flag.

Red for the blood they shed, Black for the people they looted from, Green for the land they stole.

Desire in Fashion. Impeccability en Vogue.

Tara Lynn posing for Vanity Fair Italy

Hat upon a mature woman's head is different from the escapism much younger women entrap themselves within out of not knowing. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.8.16

Military service changes and shifts sexual energies in men and women. It is dangerous for women like Amy, who see advantages in sexual prowess. It is dangerous for men who take advantage of women like Amy. This round of effort to be nasty with each other, and maintain a sense of decorum is a round about way women and men dance with each other denying on one hand that the genders can be civil when in fact war and aggression stir sexual energies. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Jan. 22, 2017)

Hats have their way of creating and adding to a woman's mystique the way clothes are the mystique of a woman's body. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1.2.17

the Eye is easily Pleased with Light.

Hat elegantly worn by Jean Patchett photographed by Irving Penn, 1949.

bare foot in the park.

Bai Ling in red & sunlight (Dec. 31, 2015)

purple skirt worn by Clarrisa.

She Tells Our Story

Mary J. Blige, cool elegance.

Carmen de Lavallade, dance legend, in this photo appeared in the October 1964 issue

of Harper's Bazaar wearing a Coppola e Toppa necklace.

What a boy should know . . .

Allure can be a dare, a dare can be a challenge to one's sense of right or wrong for the moment of weakness. Allure can be a many splendid thing or the first temptation downward with the dogs.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.9.16

An Old Cat.

Old white man like, Joe Dallesandro, sporting, not wearing, a hat coolly cocked to the side, eyes ablaze with old fire and new light!

"Don't see a lot of white men capable of wearing a hat with grace and a slight menace in a cool style. When it is seen it is almost always an old cat, who understands some things younger ones haven't the sophistication to 'see', absorb and connect with their sense of masculinity." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Feb.16, 2017]

Respect to the Principle.

"Stunning quality! At first glance I see a red haired woman's exquisite beauty has a level of humor, haughtiness that engages each other seductively!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 2.8.16  

red haired woman's exquisite beauty has a level of humor, haughtiness that engages each other seductively! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 2.8.16

Redheaded Goddesses

hat worn elegantly.

 

Ease, the appearance of

Betty Brosmer was an early proponent of women's health and fitness, and in 1961

she married Joe Weider, whom she knew from the fitness movement.

Clint Eastwood in Rome, Italy 1964.

Hat worn in the 1950's felt a lot different in the texture of the times,

and the ease of life in comparison to today, where we are distant from the

pull of those times and its controversies. photo by Irving Penn.

Dedicated.

Chadra Dalan Pittman at the water, her peaceful, happy place. photo by Bill Thomas of Thirdi Image Photography. June 2016. earrings by Deborah Wright.

Hats worn by women who are style and embody style with grace give definition to the finer elements of style and fashion. African-blood women are separated by a perception of their origins as the daughters of Eve directed from an essence others don't fall short of, but come from. It is a deep thing being a daughter of the blood of the Land of the Blacks that began the exploration of the idea of cumulative living with Nature, and pondered the complexity of living as a civilization. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Nov. 17, 2017) 

Chanise S. Smith adorned in a stylish hat (Oct. 8, 2012)

Chadra Dalan Pittman's face stirs deep contemplation into the strength, the swirling stories she lived, and the inescapable presence of a beauty that thinks beyond itself. It is funny how that combination makes the heart center on what is important, and elusive. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories Nov. 17, 2016

Creation is born within, I dare say. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Tease and Joy

the Joy.

Chico's model by Daymion Mardel Photography dons a hat.

the Tease.

classic African American woman 3