Badges of Honor
The wonderful piece on Ethel Bradley and her 200-plus hat collection (“Royal Splendor,” by Emory Holmes II, Metropolis, March 28) reminds me of the women of color in New Orleans during the Civil War who were ordered to wear tignons, or head coverings, under threat of arrest. What started as badges of dishonor became things of beauty when they decorated them with feathers and bows.
Esther B. Hugo
Manhattan Beach
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