The Most Famous Southern Belle Hat ~ Scarlett O'Hara ~ Gone With the Wind!

Wear an East Angel Harbor Southern Belle Hat to your next tea party or barbecue and you’ll get lots of attention…

just like Scarlett O’Hara!

A Southern belle was an ideal example of a young woman of the American South’s upper class, known for her gracious hospitality, cultivation of beauty, and flirtatious yet chaste demeanor and neatness. The most significant Southern Belle is the character of Scarlett O’Hara made known to us all as a result of the work of Margaret Mitchell with her book Gone With the Wind published in 1936. It was later turned into a movie/film and is still popular today in the form of DVD’s.
The Southern Belle hat most remembered is the wide brimmed straw hat that Scarlett wore to Ashley’s birthday barbecue at Twelve Oaks. She was the epitome of the Southern Belle as she sat daintily in her pretty green dress and hat wooing the hearts of the gentlemen at the barbecue. The wide-brimmed hat of the mid 1800′s was worn by Belles of both the North and the South; the women knew how important it was to protect their skin from the sun and when they went out for the afternoon, this wide brimmed hat afforded shade from the damaging rays of the sun.
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