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Opera hat

Department Store Brooks Brothers American

1933

Not on view

An opera hat was requisite headwear with elegant white-tie formal ensemble. The hat's collapsible feature is for convenience when wearing the hat to the opera or theater; it could be more easily held or checked during the performance. Brooks Brothers was founded by Henry Sands Brooks in New York in 1818 as Brooks Clothing Company and offered both ready-made and custom clothing for men.

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Opera hat, Brooks Brothers (American, founded 1818), silk, American

Opera hat, Brooks Brothers (American, founded 1818), silk, American

Opera hat, Brooks Brothers (American, founded 1818), silk, American

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Title: Opera hat

Department Store: Brooks Brothers (American, founded 1818)

Date: 1933

Culture: American

Medium: silk

Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Ford Goulding, 1969

Accession Number: 2009.300.2585

Chronology

The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present

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