Here's part of the poem which inspired ladies to meet for tea and wear red hats.\n\nWARNING\nby Jenny Jacobs\n\nWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purple\nWith a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.\nAnd I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves\nAnd satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.\nI shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired\nAnd gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells\nAnd run my stick along the public railings\nAnd make up for the sobriety of my youth.\n==========================================\nBut maybe I ought to practice a little now?\nSo people who know me are not too shocked and surprised\nWhen suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.