Many daughters and granddaughters of the women who made bold and flashy hats synonymous with the black church have not carried on the tradition. Anita Saunders, 42, Elaine’s youngest daughter ...

Church hats remain a powerful symbol of pride, elegance, and tradition in the African American community.

"Big, BIG hats," she says ... Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats. Women will spend hundreds of dollars to find the perfect hat to wear to church, everyone agreed. Wearing colorful, stylish ...

The only person who'd touch a woman's hat is someone who doesn't wear hats," she says in the new book "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats ... fine in a big fancy hat," co-author ...

go to church and put on this big fancy crown – colorful hats decorated with sequins and bows. I titled the project 'Crowns' because I thought of these women as queens. It was a mixture of faith ...

As a child growing up in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Angela Farris ... They are too big to fill.” The “Hats of the King Family Women” exhibit will run at the Atlanta History Center through ...

Part of your Sunday's best for Easter is about the pastels, the shoes and the big church hats ... one-of-a-kind hats," Land said. 1 of 25 Hats from Cart'Air Boutique For some women, a big ...

In the South especially, it remains a common custom for women to wear hats to church, according to Riley ... She is growing out her hair, and those big curls make it hard to find a hat that ...