That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 07, 2024

/// In Preparing for the Matinée,

Charlotte Barton primps for the ballet.

Large fur hats were quite common

for this young Boston Brahmin;

in her box seat she’ll be on display.

Milly loved her cat so much she had it stuffed and wore it as a hat after it died.

Makes my hair look fuller, don’t cha’ think?

Gretchen admired the latest addition to her collection of roadkill headwear.

Hey, look! She made her hair into a hat.

Playing softly in the background was her favorite song: “You can leave your hat on”.

Long as she’s going to see “The English Patient” she should have little trouble…

“When the hairdresser suggested extensions, I expected something else.”

Old silent movie theater text screen: “Ladies Under Forty, Kindly Remove Your Hats.”

Misunderstanding the phrase “a feather in your cap”, Annabelle wore a nest on her head in hopes that a bird would live in it.

Mary got ready to audition for the title role in the remake of “Bride of Frankenstein”.

Lessons in stealing the host’s silver plater

No matter how rich or well bred/

What a woman will wear on her head…/

This one looks like twas struck/

By an Amazon truck:/

One is not even sure that it’s dead…

Gretchen was having trouble finding the hole in her head to stick her hat pin in.

Edward Sissorhands cousin Elaine Anvilhead.

Gretchen hate how with the high humidity, she couldn’t do a thing with her hair!

“…Yeah, … just about perfect! Nobody will notice my stash in this hat.”

Great comments everybody!!

Being very light of skin Judith wear her hat on very sunny days!

Bonnie Parker’s mom perfects her bank robbing disguise. Now to secure the get-away horse and buggy!

She always sat on the back row anyway.

Oh. That’s where I put my hat.

Preparing for the Matinee: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Feathered hats in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Matinee, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting, including the museum’s Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3334 (June 7, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the June 30, 2015, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my extensive comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

Gretchen fails to realize that you’re not supposed to use the whole beaver for the hat.

sussy having just shaved her boyfriend no no parts thought this will make a nice wig.

Has anyone heard from BE THIS GUY recently? I hope he’s OK.

Marie was unsure where to wear a merkin.

Now, I challenge anyone to prove my carriage run over the neighbors poodle. Get going, James, I won’t be late for the Baroness afternoon.

I always get stuck behind a tall guy with a big head.

A Bobert moment.