I found an illustration from the Delineator from 1889, July that shows a similar hat, with the same off center wavy brim, from the back, and it seems to have a very low crown. Leghorn is a type of straw.
Katy On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Emily Gilbert <emchantm...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm not an expert on this topic, but looking at the link to the fashion > notes for the year, which refer to the "curious and startling" open-crowned > coronet bonnet (toward the bottom of the left-hand column on that page), > I'd say it's reasonably safe to assume that your leghorn does have a crown! > > Emily > > > > On 9/17/2013 2:11 PM, Lauren Walker wrote: > >> Hi, >> Yes, the brim is wavy, but apparently that's a way of styling the >> "leghorn flat", since the written description calls it a "flat". (It's Fig. >> 2 in the descriptions here.) >> http://babel.hathitrust.org/**cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;** >> view=1up;seq=185<http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=185> >> >> So frequently, the descriptions assume we know the contemporaneous >> interpretation of the terms; they knew how this season's leghorn was >> shaped, and weren't thinking of us 120 years later trying to figure it out! >> >> The previous issue's general discussion of fashion notes that the leghorn >> flat has made it's annual debut, and this year is twisted and bent as suits >> the wearer's fancy. http://babel.hathitrust.org/** >> cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;**view=1up;seq=86<http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=86> >> >> I think I'm going with light, flexible straw -- that part of the >> definition of "leghorn" seems to have stayed pretty constant -- and hoping >> to use millinery wire to get the bends in the brim to stay put. >> >> Lauren M. Walker >> lauren.wal...@comcast.net >> >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Lynn Downward wrote: >> >> As I recall, leghorn describes the type of straw the hat is made of. >>> Also, >>> that brim is wavy, not flat at all. It's a gorgeous hat! >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Lauren Walker >>> <lauren.wal...@comcast.net>**wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> Working on the last of the four 19th-century fashion plates I'm >>>> recreating >>>> as doll outfits! I would like to check in with those more familiar with >>>> 19th-century millinery about the hat. It's an 1889 "flat leghorn", >>>> according to Godey's text; I'm trying to confirm that it has a low flat >>>> crown rather than an open one or a completely flat one. >>>> (figure on the right): >>>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/**cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;** >>>> view=1up;seq=109<http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=109> >>>> Any thoughts? >>>> Thank you! >>>> (The third outfit was a nightmare; I remade it four times. Eventually I >>>> got the chiffon pleated in a satisfactory manner using a pleating board >>>> and >>>> plenty of starch, but no heat. There will be photos of all once the full >>>> project is done and the gift given to its intended recipient.) >>>> >>>> Thanks again for all your aid. This has been so much fun! Even the pleat >>>> nightmare. >>>> Lauren >>>> >>>> >>>> Lauren M. Walker >>>> lauren.wal...@comcast.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> h-costume mailing list >>>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> h-costume mailing list >>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> h-costume@mail.indra.com >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian katybisho...@gmail.com www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
