Report on The Red Hat Society, something I’d never heard of. Sounds fun and a great idea:
There are no rules, but members usually turn out in red hats and purple
clothes for society gatherings which feature everything from tea
parties to tobogganing, via belly dancing classes and "Laser Tag," a
form of paintball.
In essence, girls day out for women of a certain age. One thing that puzzled me wasthe constant reference to what "red hat" means in English:
or the meaning that red hats apparently carry there: that you’re not wearing any knickers and so you’re a prostitute."
and
The problem is the ‘red hat, no drawers’ phrase.
I like to think I’m reasonably fluent in English, it is, after all, my native language, but I’d never heard of this phrase. As a nominal papist my immediate thought, on hearing of a red hat, is a Cardinal, and I was unaware that they insisted upon the kilt solution.
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