Hats On!

Marty Elpers, daughter of Tom Meeker, president and CEO of Churchill Downs, dresses up for the running of the 132nd Kentucky Derby on May 6, 2006, in Louisville, Ky.

Members of a classic boat club are decked out in pink flamingo hats to participate in the boat parade on the opening day of the annual Windermere Cup race in Seattle on May 6, 2006.

An exuberant Jack Varuso knocks off his wife Connie's hat as they dance to the Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band during the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 6, 2006.

Chester Sadowski, 86, shows off his hat at a Cinco de Mayo celebration on May 5, 2006. The celebration was held by the Luzerne County Area Agency on Aging in Nanticoke, Pa.

Kenny Kid munches on a plateful of crawfish while wearing a (non-edible) crawfish on his hat during an employee crawfish boil and appreciation day at ConocoPhillips' Buckeye, N.M., office on May 3, 2006.

It's not spring, it's summer, if you're in El Paso, Texas. Francisca Eston tops her light shawl with a hat to fend off the hot sun as she walks through the downtown shopping district on May 2, 2006.

Oh no! Not campaign season, too! DFL delegate JanBert Jacobse of Minneapolis listens to candidate Michael Erlandson speak at the DFL Congressional District 5 Convention on May 6, 2006, in St. Louis Park, Minn. As his hat suggests, Jacobse was backing candidate Gail Dorfman to fill a seat being vacated by Rep. Martin Olav Sabo.

The heavy competition for most elegant hat of the season distracts from the main event at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on the weekend of the 132nd running of the Kentucky Derby. Here, Laura Whitlock of Chicago arrives for the race on Saturday, May 6, 2006.

Ever stylish off the court, tennis star Serena Williams' hat blows in the breeze as she waits for the running of the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Socialite Ivana Trump, wearing a colorful hat made, hopefully, of silk feathers rather than real dead birds, attends the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Actress Bijou Phillips, sporting a hat with a fashion-savvy rhinestone clip, attends the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Model Petra Nemcova attends the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006. (Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)

Natty director Spike Lee, right, and wife Tonya Lewis Lee shine in matching summer white outfits at the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Actress Jaime Pressly wears a cool straw hat and a dazzling smile at the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Donovan Barnett of Warwick, R.I., wears an appropriately decorated hat in the paddock area at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

An elegantly-hatted woman smokes a cigar during the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Loreta Corsetti wears her hat in the paddock during the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

A woman with roses atop her hat stands in the paddock during the 132nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Kentucky Derby spectator Carla Ann Faso, of Chicago, looks through her hat at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2006.

Men and women wearing feathered hats are silhouetted at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on Derby Day, May 6, 2006.