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Garden gnomes
Garden gnomes wear red hats. Very rarely is a gnome, at least a male gnome, spotted with a different color upon his head. One may ask, “Why are these little creatures always wearing hats, and why must the hats be red?” Perhaps you should ask the ladies of the Red Hat Society – do these women have anything in common with the little men who reside in gardens? After all, they have a similar propensity toward wearing red hats!
In truth, however, garden gnomes and women over fifty wear red hats for entirely different reasons. Gnomes wear hats of red due to fisherman’s tradition – Mediterranean fisherman would wear white hats at night if they wanted to be seen in the dark, and red hats if they did not. Gnomes are creatures who prefer to stay hidden, so they opt for the latter color.
Women of the Red Hat Society, on the other hand, choose their hat color based on a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins, “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple, with a red hat that doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me…”
So, as you can see, old women and garden gnomes each wear red hats for entirely different reasons… unless they are all part of an underground secret society.
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