17 Vintage Photographs Show Women Wearing Crazy Easter Bonnets in the Mid-20th Century _ Old US Nostalgia

There is something freeing about wearing a chicken or a bunny or carton of eggs on your head! Even if you don’t celebrate Easter as a religious holiday, Spring is something we all celebrate, and what better way to help usher it in, than with a new hat!

Women, throughout the years, have bought new hats to wear to church services on Easter and to wear in local parades. They have been elegant, dramatic, whimsical, functional, and down right ridiculous. But Easter bonnets are a fun part of our fashion history!

Below is a collection of 17 crazy vintage Easter bonnets from between the 1940s and 1960s.