Memories of a Sixties Chick

Many years ago, lets call it mid-century, as it was the middle of the last century, my mother wore a hat very much like this one.

She wore it to church mostly and to PTA meetings. She wore a navy dress with tiny white polka dots that matched the ribbon hat band.
Afterward, she stored it carefully in a round "hat box" and put it on the high shelf in her closet.
Seeing this hat today, brings back so many memories, and strangely, the wonderful fragrance of vanilla. Maybe it was the cookies after PTA.