Cap

E. A. Morrison, Importer

ca. 1880 · cotton, silk · Costume Institute

In the early 1880s the hair was dressed very simply and lay close to the head, with large curls worn low and the front waved or in a large knot on the crown and the front combed back. Young women wearing the fashionable hairstyle of the time were no longer wearing day caps. This cap would more likely have been worn by a married woman as part of her morning toilette.

Artist

E. A. Morrison, Importer

Date

ca. 1880

Medium

cotton, silk

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 William G. Lord, 1963