Pink straw hat with flower and feather decoration
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1965
name: label: Created by
content: Mr. John, American, founded 1948
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A pink straw hat with flowers and feathers. The exterior of the hat is made of plastic straw and synthetic raffia. The hat has a circular cone crown with a small brim. A pink silk organza hat band is draped around the base of the crown and tacked down with hand stitches. Blue feathers are pinned to the exterior of the hat and wrapped with thread at the base. A pink fabric rose with a yellow felt pompom glued to the center is pinned under the feathers. The fabric petals are made of polyester silk and velveteen with raw edges. Three leaves made of cotton coated in plastic are at the top left side of the rose. Blue forget-me-not flowers made of velveteen are pinned under the pink rose. The blue forget-me-nots have yellow paper centers and floral wire stems. Two fern leaves are placed to the right underside of the flowers. On the back of the hat the silk pink organza is draped in two loops. A circle of six glass beads and rhinestones are tacked down with hand stitches at the center back of the hat. The hat’s interior is unlined, there is a pink petersham rayon ribbon sweatband sewn to the interior. A white label is sewn along the sweatband and reads [MR.John Jr.] in white script.
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.
place: label: Place collected
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Millinery
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.553
objectType: label: Type
content: hats
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: synthetic raffia and plastic straw with, silk organza, feathers, paper, cotton, velveteen, floral wire, felt, petersham rayon ribbon, metal, glass rhinestones, glass beads, and adhesive
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D x C: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 8 × 20 in. (19.1 × 24.1 × 20.3 × 50.8 cm)