Matching a white hat to a white dress suit for communion Sunday or a purple hat to a purple dress suit for Easter Sunday became the norm from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

The 12th annual “100 Women in White” service is being combined with the second “Hat-e-lujah” program at 3:30 p.m Sunday, July 16, at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church, 2222 S.E. Madison.

It is as if there are three universal black church rules: (1) there shall be women who wear hats at every Sunday service; (2) some of the women will choose a hat in the exact shade of their dress ...

Muskegon's Laura Clifford loves hats and suits for Sunday, but she's not afraid to take a cue from younger women during the rest of the week. She wears leather pants when she shoots pool, for example.