Cocktail hat

Dickerts

ca. 1940 · wool, feather · Costume Institute

Fruits and flowers have long been a popular millinery decoration. This whimsical example demonstrates how materials could be expertly manipulated by milliners to create shapes, here eye-popping magenta fruit or floral forms, creating a miniature garden vignette completely made of feathers.

Artist

Dickerts

Date

ca. 1940

Medium

wool, feather

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Julia Raymond, 1956