Lady's Cap

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Lady's Cap

Entry/Object ID

CW 639

Description

Hat. Lady's mobcap. large cap of stiff gauze; white satin ribbon trim (replacement for old satin). Fair condition. Not to be loaned. Circa 1780. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

unknown

Provenance

Notes

"A mob cap or mob-cap is a round, gathered or pleated cloth (usually linen) bonnet consisting of a caul to cover the hair, a frilled or ruffled brim, and (often) a ribbon band, worn by married women in the Georgian period, when it was called a "bonnet". (Source: Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_cap)