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With its broad rim and very shallow crown, this straw hat imitates the eighteenth-century sun hats known as "bergères" for their bucolic associations with pastoral shepherdesses. However, the rudimentary woolen needlework and pristine (if faded) condition reveal this to be a much later homage.
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Title: Hat
Date: Early 20th Century
Culture: Swiss
Medium: straw, wool, cotton
Dimensions: 2 x 14 in. (5.1 x 35.6 cm)
Classification: Accessory-Headwear-Womenswear
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Pratt Institute, 1943
Object Number: 2009.300.1776
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