For a very conservative service, some women may opt to wear a simpler, formal hat.
Hats varied from a formal dress hat, to a sailor's hat to a silly costume hat with attached wig.
A Wired City Official dress uniform including jacket, pants, socks, underwear, collared shirt, t-shirt and formal hat.
In what was once the father's dressing room, small glass cases now display a collection of photos pasted into scrapbooks -- Béatrice on horseback in riding clothes; the family standing outside on a cold day dressed in winter coats and formal hats.
I'll never forget the congregation's sea of white dresses and formal hats and the beautiful sound of the Samoan language, especially mesmerizing when they sang a translated version of "This Little Light of Mine".
The Hasidim comprise a number of Jewish sects that originated in Eastern Europe in the 18th century; the men wear the distinctive garb of that era, including formal hats and long black coats, and tend to have side curls and beards.
You don't wear a floppy hat to a formal cocktail party.
The governor wore a deerstalker (this was an informal visit; a formal one required a cocked hat) and the pilot was a gruff old Scotsman, perhaps called "Mac".
Quint's bare head, in a formal period that demanded a hat, becomes for her, not only a sign of social impropriety, but of a freedom that suggests the taking of other, far more dangerous liberties.
In one, he distinguished between "a black silk hat called a top hat," worn at formal daytime occasions with a morning coat or cutaway, and the kind worn to a formal evening affair with a tailcoat: "The hat properly worn with this suit is an opera hat -- a folding silk hat of grosgrain material -- but almost nobody owns one these days".
Count the number of people wearing hats (at a formal church) or sweats (at a casual church).
