Hat

Unknown

ca. 1910 · silk, feathers, wool · Costume Institute

With the slimming of the fashionable silhouette in of the second half of the 1900s, hats responded in counterpoint by becoming increasingly larger. The size and form of this hat is impressive, with its wide swath of brim accented with the popular ostrich plumes and its extraordinarily large crown, made to accommodate the large hairstyles of the period.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1910

Medium

silk, feathers, wool

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 Alice G. Fell, 1960