Object: Hat
Brand:
Caroline Reboux
(French, 1870 - 1956)
Date: 1929
Medium: Black straw with black velvet ribbon
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: P83.39.16
DescriptionCloche, black straw with black velvet ribbon trim and assymmetrical brim flattened against crown in front and widening at both sides of back
Label Text:The cloche was a revolutionary hat in that it eschewed the rigid wire frames of the 19th century in favor of soft felts and straw, which could be draped and molded to hug the curves of the newly bobbed head.
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Arbiters of Style
- Paris, Capital of Fashion
- Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturiere, 1919-1939
- Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions from the 1930s