# What kind of hat did Granny ('Beverly Hillbillies') wear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183 "2016-03-16T18:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/21 "2016-03-18T03:08:55Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Lisa, because she can cook too. Hotcakes!! And hot water soup! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/22 "2016-03-18T06:20:28Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Choose: Elly May Clampett or Lisa Douglas? :dubious: :o Elly May, though her critters may give my allergies grief. Elly May might beat out Bailey Quarters and Mary Ann in my mind. Now THAT’S a fuck-marry-kill conundrum! Mary Anne can cook some, though. . . ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/23 "2016-03-18T08:38:23Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Elly May, though her critters may give my allergies grief. Elly May might beat out Bailey Quarters and Mary Ann in my mind. Now THAT’S a fuck-marry-kill conundrum! Mary Anne can cook some, though. . . Let’s add Fraulein Helga, Col Klink’s secretary during the 1st season, to that list. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/24 "2016-03-18T10:42:05Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Let’s add Fraulein Helga, Col Klink’s secretary during the 1st season, to that list. And Wrangler Jane! :o ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/25 "2016-03-18T10:57:26Z")
The vastly underappreciated Sue Ann Langdon, as she appeared in an episode of _ **McHale’s Navy** _: [http://cdnstatic.visualizeus.com/thumbs/f4/55/f45574c6b14a476c7e501c20dad50efa\_h.jpg](http://cdnstatic.visualizeus.com/thumbs/f4/55/f45574c6b14a476c7e501c20dad50efa_h.jpg) _“No Sherman tank was ever built like **that**!”_ :o ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/26 "2016-03-18T11:20:38Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > And hot water soup! And Dee Dee’s Dehydrificated Mason Dixon Chicken Dinner! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/27 "2016-03-19T04:01:46Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Huh? 😕 Greet, surely. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/28 "2016-03-19T04:22:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Choose: Elly May Clampett or Lisa Douglas? :dubious: :o Elly May in a heartbeat. She’s adorable. Lisa Douglas is just annoying. I never could get into that show–I never liked any of the characters. I probably actually know some Elly May types. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183/29 "2016-03-19T10:27:13Z")
> [@MickNickMaggies](#): > > I’d call it a Watteau, like these: [https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2664M/lots/537](https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2664M/lots/537) > > It’s a wide catagory, though, that seems to encompass a lot of shapes. Watteau: A broad-brimmed shepherdess hat, worn tilted forward to keep the sun off her face? Who am I to argue with “The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York”, but in the auction picture they don’t look like anything Watteau painted, or like a shepherdess hat, and I don’t see the link with a Watteau dress or style. I’d call Grannies hat a bonnet, because it reminds me of a scotch bonnet. Functionally it seems more like a fascinator. We don’t use the term Sunday-go-meeting here, but I can’t think of any other purpose for that hat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-hat-did-granny-beverly-hillbillies-wear/749183.md?page=1)