Name/Title
Ladies Brown Velvet HatEntry/Object ID
2022.2.22.5Description
This is a 19th-century simple lady's brown velvet hat with ribbon carefully placed on top. Held in place with seashell pins, this hat may have been fashioned on a wire frame and made by a home milliner.Use
Hat and bonnet styles were to change often in the 19th century. Beginning at a time when hats were created to match your profession and ending at a time when hats were fashioned to match your hair, one could call this time in history as the century of style and fashion. Large, small, short, tall, simple, and grand; hats and bonnets changed often. Milliners were kept quite busy creating these artistic displays of one’s personality.Context
There is one defining moment during this fashion era when hats were on their way to riding high on the head. Part of that story is told here:
"This change of millinery pace is attributed to the Duchesse de Fontanges. Having lost her riding hat during a royal hunt, the duchess tied up her blond curls with a ribbon garter. She was so complimented on the look by Louis XIV that her makeshift hairdo become a fashion craze. This was to be the forerunner of a high-crowned bonnet, aptly named the Fontange, that dominated millinery in the 1880s" (Reilly & Detrich, 1997, p.9).Location
Room
Textile RoomBuilding
Doty HouseSection with Park
Hueston Woods Pioneer FarmOhio State Park
Hueston Woods State Park
