The Red Hat Society is an international society that connects and supports women as they pursue fun, friendship, freedom and fulfillment in life. The first “Red Hat Tea” was informally held on ...

The Red Hat Society started in 1998 when Sue Ellen Cooper, founder and "exalted queen mother" of the Red Hat Society, saw a beautiful vintage red hat at a thrift store.

While it's a movement that not everyone understands, the Red Hat Society now has 70,000 members and 20,000 chapters in 26 countries, all coordinated from hat-quarters in Fullerton, Calif.

The society was founded by Sue Ellen Cooper in 1998 in Fullerton, Calif. Members of the Red Hat Society can be identified in restaurants and tea houses by their red hats and purple dresses.

Fifty-three women wearing red or pink hats and purple shirts, pants and dresses, converged on Weaver Park Sept. 25. The women were members of the Red Hat Society and they came from all over the ...

Being a member of the Red Hat Society, a global social networking community for women, encourages women to have fun through middle age and beyond.

Sue Ellen Cooper, a 1968 graduate with a degree in Humanities and Social Sciences, started the Red Hat Society, which has grown to more than 20,000 chapters.

Click here to subscribe today or Login. The Wilkes-Barre Area Queens Council of the Red Hat Society will hold a Black and White Gala on Thursday April 20, at The Woodlands in Wilkes-Barre.