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This coif– a close-fitting fabric cap with strings– is very characteristic of a type common to the French region of Brittany. Particularly associated with the Atlantic fishing town of Audierne, it has long openwork lappets, which could be left hanging as ornament down the wearer's back, or be looped up and pinned in place.
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Title: Breton Woman's Coif
Date: 1890–1910
Culture: French, Brittany
Medium: linen
Dimensions: 19 3/4 in. (50.2 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 Sally Victor, 1949
Object Number: 2009.300.2370
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