They had a big gathering of Red Hat Ladies in Smithfield last week. You know, the ladies over 50 who put on red hats and purple outfits and get together to do fun stuff, like in the poem ...

Red Hat ladies frivolous at fifty. 19 February 2005 • 12:01am . ... She then read Warning, a poem written in 1961 by Jenny Joseph, which opens: "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple ...

The "disorganization" was started in 1997 by Exalted Queen Mother Sue Ellen Cooper when she gave a red hat and a poem to her friend, Linda Murphy, on Murphy's 55th birthday. Murphy is the vice ...

Some years ago, when I was a mere girl and gray hair was for people my mother's age, and the magazine Early Maturity was arriving in the mail for my dad, not me, I read a poem that went something ...

Women of a certain age -- most are over 50 -- can just put on a bright red hat and join in. (Scroll down to watch a report on this story) "It's a sisterhood," Annette Pope said.

Ladies in red and purple celebrate 10 years. ... The society’s name stems from a poem written by Jenny Joseph called “Warning,” which ... Red Hat ladies travel around the country and world.

For today’s senior women, fun is everywhere – and it comes wearing a red hat. More and more women are joining the Red Hat Society, a group for women age 50 and over whose members don ...