Bonnet
This example of a typical bonnet worn at the end of the 1870s would have been popular with youthful married women. Probably worn with a visiting ensemble, the hat features straw, velvet and picoté ribbon. The small size accented the wearer's coiffure: her hair would have been gathered into a decorative topknot with light fringe over the forehead. Balch Price and Company was a prominent Brooklyn retailer.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bonnet
- Department Store: Balch, Price & Company (American, founded 1869)
- Date: ca. 1880
- Culture: American
- Medium: straw, silk
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James McF. Baker, 1948
- Object Number: 2009.300.1441
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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