Red fedora with striped ribbon hat band
date: label: Date
content: 1970s
name: label: Created by
content: Betmar, American, founded 1933
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A fedora hat made from red wool felt. The hatband is made from a rayon Petersham ribbon with navy, red, and yellow horizontal stripes. The hatband is machine stitched to the hat with white thread. There is a gathered and pleated rosette sewn on the proper right side of the hat on the hatband with two short, diagonal cut ribbons sewn underneath it, pointing upwards. The interior of the hat is unlined. A large, white fabric tag is adhered to the interior crown. The label reads [100% wool felt by] in black text and [chelton] in red text.
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: 2007.3.495
objectType: label: Type
content: fedoras
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: wool and rayon ribbon
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 5 × 10 1/2 × 12 × 21 in. (12.7 × 26.7 × 30.5 × 53.3 cm)