Hat
The trend toward higher crowns for hats during the 1930s offered milliners an opportunity to revisit hat styles of earlier eras, including the begère style of the 1790s. A limited color palette makes the combination of textures a prominent element of this hat. Details of quality workmanship would have been expected by those shopping in Biarritz, a seaside resort favored by royals and the wealthy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Artwork Details
- Title: Hat
- Designer: Eugénie Safontas
- Date: ca. 1935
- Culture: French
- Medium: straw, silk, feathers
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, Jr., 1967
- Object Number: 2009.300.2114
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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