Fun and extravagant Kentucky Derby hats through the years

Ahead of the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky, one woman was seen wearing a pink-and-purple colored hat with feathers.  (LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

A man wears a festive gold horse hat ahead of the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

A guest at Kentucky Derby No. 149 at Churchill Downs on May 6, 2023, wore a large red hat resembling a peony. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images for Churchill Downs)

A guest at the 149th Kentucky Derby wears a large feathered hat while at Churchill Downs on May 6, 2023, in Louisville. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Churchill Downs)

A guest wears a unique silver hat while attending the 149th Kentucky Derby on May 6, 2023, in Louisville. (Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images)

A Kentucky Derby attendee wore a medium-sized blue hat with a prominent red flower during the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 7, 2022. (Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images)

An attendee wears a blue butterfly hat during the 149th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Racetrack, May 6, 2023.  (LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

A guest attends Kentucky Derby 149 at Churchill Downs on May 6, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky, adorned with pretty pink peonies and long wispy, white florals. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images for Churchill Downs)

Two attendees wearing large flower-like hats are seen during the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 7, 2022, in Louisville, Kentucky. One woman donned a pink hat while the other donned a purple hat. (Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images)

An anonymous Kentucky Derby attendee wore a large red hat adorned with roses and feathers to the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 7, 2022, in Louisville, Kentucky. (Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images)

A detailed shot of Kentucky Derby spectators on May 6, 2022, where an attendee is seen wearing a large pink hat, netting, flowers and feathers ahead of the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, in Louisville. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

A woman wore a large yellow hat with orange trim, pink flowers and colorful feathers to the 148th Kentucky Derby's Kentucky Oaks Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 6, 2022. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Horse-racing fan Mat Lowe wears a derby hat during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville  on May 4, 2019. (Reuters/Jamie Rhodes/USA TODAY Sports)

Race patrons wearing matching elaborate hats arrive for the running of the 139th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, May 4, 2013. (REUTERS/John Gress)

A woman wears a fancy hat adorned with flowers and peacock feathers at Churchill Downs in Louisville at the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, on May 5, 2012. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

Eric Williams of Chicago wears an antique camera on his hat prior to the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 5, 2012. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes )

A woman wears a tall flamingo-flower hat at Churchill Downs in Louisville at the 138th Kentucky Derby, on May 5, 2012. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

Before the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 5, 2012, a woman wears a hat with black, blue and yellow feathers at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.  (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

A woman wears a giant cream-colored hat with floral embellishments and prints at Churchill Downs in Louisville before the 138th Kentucky Derby, on May 5, 2012. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

A race fan wears an elaborate pink hat with feathers and flowers for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 7, 2011. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

Woman in a colorful butterfly-print hat attends the 136th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs, Louisville. (Associated Press)

Race fan Ron Kelly wears his Derby hat ahead of the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Brent Smith)

Race fan Greg Fehribach wears his horse hat ahead of the 135th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, May 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Brent Smith)

On May 2, 2009, one man wears a hat shaped like a horse head at the 135th Kentucky Derby as race fans stand in the paddock area of Churchill Downs. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

A race fan displays her pink feather No. 39 hat before the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville on May 3, 2008.      (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

A race fan displays her racetrack hat before the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Molly Riley)

Race fans display their balloon hats before the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

A race fan wears a hat made of balloons depicting horses before the 133rd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, May 5, 2007. (REUTERS/John Sommers II)

On May 20, 2006, horse racing fan Mary McMullen wears a hat decorated with black-eyed susans while watching the races at the Pimlico Race Course before the 132nd running of the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

On May 6, 2006, derby fan Donavan Barnett wears a horse- and rose-adorned derby hat at the Churchill Downs paddock area of the 132nd Kentucky Derby in Louisville. (REUTERS/John Sommers II)

Race fan Jed Munson of Sarasota, Florida, sports an elaborate horse hat in the infield of Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky, May 7, 2005 prior to the 131st running of the Kentucky Derby. (REUTERS/Matt Sullivan PJ/GN)

A race fan wears a unique horse head-shaped hat with roses in the infield at Churchill Downs prior to the 130th running of the Kentucky Derby, in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 2004. (REUTERS/Win McNamee PJ/HB)

Kentucky Derby fan Skip Koepnick wears a unique race horse and rose-adorned hat prior to the 130th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 2004. (REUTERS/Larry Downing PJ/HB)

Kentucky Derby fan Margaret Marsden wears a self-designed hat depicting the winner's circle at Churchill Downs, prior to the 128th running of the Kentucky Derby, on May 4, 2002. (REUTERS/Jamie Rhodes PJ/HB)

On May 4, 2002, Tony Offlutt, of New Albany, Indiana, wears a huge Kentucky Derby theme hat at the Churchill Downs paddock area of the 128th Kentucky Derby. (REUTERS/Jamie Rhodes PJ)

Kentucky Derby fan Ernie Trent of Indiana wears an extravagant tower-shaped hat at Churchill Downs prior to the128th running of the Kentucky Derby, on May 4, 2002.  (REUTERS/Tom Uhlman PJ)

Derby fans Eric Williams (left), of Chicago, and Skip Koepnick (right) of Wyoming, Michigan, wear their unique horse jockey and race horse hats at Churchill Downs prior to the running of the 127th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, on May 5, 2001. (Reuters)