Red skullcap with leaf appliqué
date: label: Date
content: 1940s - 1950s
name: label: Created by
content: Jelleff's, American, founded 1910
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A red flat skullcap with rhinestones and velvet leaf appliqué. The top of the crown is slightly pointed and tapers downwards as the sides. The body of the hat is made from stiff synthetic net blocked to shape. Decorative leaves cut from velveteen and backed with a non-woven paper adhesive are hand-stitched to hat with large basting stitches. Rhinestones are glued to the leaves. Metal wire is attached to the edge of the hat with machine stitches along the blocked net. A rayon petersham ribbon sweatband and velveteen trim that encases another wire encircles bottom edge of the hat. There are grips attached to each side of the hat made of looped wire covered in red velvet. There are two labels at the center back of the hat; the first reads [Frank R. Jelleff INC. NEW YORK WASHINGTON, D.C.], the second reads [22].
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Millinery
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.444
objectType: label: Type
content: hats
label: Type
content: skullcaps
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: velveteen, synthetic net, paper, adhesive, petersham rayon ribbon, rhinestones, and metal wire
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D x C: 2 × 7 1/2 × 8 × 18 1/2 in. (5.1 × 19.1 × 20.3 × 47 cm)