What is the red hat society? who are those women?

Question

why do they wear purple and red?

why do they wear purple and red?

Answer 1

It's a social organization for women. Their only rules are, there are no rules. Some groups do charity work, some don't, some get togther for dinner or lunch or parties. If you're 50 and over you wear the red hat and purple; under 50 wears a lavendar hat and pink. The colors are from a lovely poem that begins, "when I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat that doesn't go and doesn't suit me" and talks about sitting on the curb and learning to spit and buying strappy sandals with your pension check. I was a member for a few months, and I could always count on several women coming up to us in the restaurant and telling us how great they thought it was.

Answer 2

Red Hat is teh sux. Debian RULEZ!

(But poster above answered your q, I think.)

EDIT

From their FAQ

A. The Red Hat Society is often referred to fondly as a "dis-organization," though we have been forced to impart a degree of order to our operations. It was inadvertently begun by Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, California when she and a few friends took inspiration from a popular poem entitled "Warning" by Jenny Joseph, which begins "When I am an old woman..." Since the poem mentions wearing a red hat and purple attire, she and her friends formed a group that met on a regular basis for tea in their red hats and purple dresses—in public, of course.


Still, gotta make a GNU/Linux reference any chance I get!

Answer 3

I also wondered about that after seeing red hat bumper stickers. It's just a social group for women who are mostly over 50. They wear red hats, feather boas, have tea and joke around.

Answer 4

It's a support group for women over the age of 50.

Answer 5

Try going to this site:

www.rrbycresa.com