Hat

Edward Molyneux

1938 · straw · Costume Institute

The flat and grandiose cartwheel, firmly secured to the head, has been a favored hat of the twentieth century, especially in the 1940s and 1950s when the eighteenth-century revival of the Dior New Look enshrined this hat once again.

Artist

Edward Molyneux

Date

1938

Medium

straw

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1939