Edwardian hat

by Kendra Van Cleave, First published for the July/August 2008 issue of Finery Hairstyles and headwear are inextricably linked in almost every era; hairstyles affect the shape and placement of the hat and vice versa. The “pompadour” popular in the 1890s belied its name. Rather than a large amount of volume, hair was dressed loosely but still simply and close […]

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Fashionable hats, published in the January 1911 issue of Ladies Home Journal.

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I recently acquired an antique Edwardian lingerie dress (translation: a lacy white cotton dress suitable for afternoon wear) that I plan on wearing to an afternoon tea. However, how can one go to a…

If you owned this photograph, wouldn’t you want to know more about the young woman wearing the outrageous butterfly hat? I have looked at this image for years, but all I knew was that the photographer had captured my grandmother Arline Allen Kinsel in a very flattering window-seat pose. Arline’s white muslin dress and huge…

Hats were a key component to women's fashion during the gilded age. They were commonly worn everyday and most women didn't leave the house without one.

“A great selection of Edwardians hats.”