Dinner toque
Department Store Balch, Price & Company American
Not on view
Made in Brooklyn in the heyday of its downtown shopping area, this hat exemplifies the quality and sophistication of goods available in Brooklyn's better stores at that time. The elaborate and complicated construction employs a complex combination of materials in contrasting textures and harmonizing tones. The hat is given presence by the stiff horsehair used for the body and principal decoration, but the overall effect is softened by the velvet trim, delicate tulle interspersed between the flowers, and specially dyed bird-of-paradise plumes positioned to fall along one edge.
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