More tea?

Another place for us to go for tea. The gardens of Restaurant Fouqueux in a town called Saint-Avertin. My eye was immediately drawn to the ladies dress. Didn’t a friend of Madame Monet have one like it? – Perhaps not….

You really do need to click on this card to appreciate it.

1909

I’d love to be able to dress up and wear a hat like this one. I wonder if it was heavy? Ladies in 1909 would be looking at this kind of creation in the shops and wondering what excuse they could give their husbands for buying yet another hat. The inscription on the back is actually dated 1915, I wonder where the card got to for six years?