Cocktail hat

ca. 1940

Not on view

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.

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Title: Cocktail hat
Designer: Dickerts
Date: ca. 1940
Culture: American
Medium: wool, feather
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Julia Raymond, 1956
Object Number: 2009.300.1506
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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