Morning cap

Unknown

1835 · cotton · Costume Institute

This elegant and detailed morning cap with refined details would have been worn primarily at home in the early part of the day as an informal head covering, prior to donning the more formal structured bonnets required for the afternoon or evening. It follows the same silhouette as the period's fashionable hats and bonnets constructed of more rigid materials such as straw.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1835

Medium

cotton

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 Randolph H. Nexsen, 1944