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WELCOME TO OUR NEW CHAPTER OF THE RED HAT SOCIETY IN DUNSBOROUGH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
“ DUNSBOROUGH DARLINGS”
Official Red Hat Society Registration ID 76743
I am Queen Genevieve the official founder of the “Dunsborough Darlings”. We are extremely new, officially registered on the 5th May, 2008. We are still open to membership and in the first 3 weeks of the Chapter being registered we already had 15 members and another on the way. Now we have increased to 27 members. We hope to keep the active membership to around 30 so as to make it possible for outings not to be too large.
“The Red Hat Society began as a result of a few women deciding to greet middle age with enthusiasm, humour and style. We believe friendly humour is the comedy relief of life, and since we are all in it together we might as well join red-gloved hands and go for the enjoyment together, Underneath the frivolity, we share a bond of affection forged by common life experiences and a genuine enthusiasm for wherever life takes us next” – Sue Elllen Cooper
Sue Ellen is the founder of this wonderful organisation. The idea came to her about 10years ago whilst visiting a friend in Tucson, she impulsively bought a bright red fedora at a thrift shop for no other reason than it was cheap and she thought quite dashing.
A year or two later she read the poem “Warning” by Jenny Joseph, which depicts an older woman in purple clothing with a red hat. Sue Ellen felt an immediate bond with Jenny Joseph and decided to give the poem and a red hat to a dearest friend. Her friend had so much enjoyment out of the poem and hat, that she gave it another friend and another friend and now we have millions of “Red Hatters” all over the world.
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