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 wrote:
> I'm not an expert on this topi
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
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
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
So frequently, the descriptions assume we know
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
wrote:
> Hi,
> Working on the last of the four 19th-century fashion plates I'm recreating
> as doll outfits! I would
