In Her Easter Bonnet

[MRB1863]

Beautifully done painting!!!

 

[James B White]

Some of these hats are elegant. Some of these hats are chic. Some of these hats are...well...

...more difficult to describe.

Is that from the wartime era? Looks long after to me. That sort of height, different from the height of the spoon bonnet, was fashionable later in the 19th century, and the whole look of hairstyle, pose and what little one can see of the dress and collar looks much later.

 

[James B White]

Okay, this is for you, Donna. I've tried to stay strictly within the Civil War era with the photos and the movies. And I don't know if this is a colorized version of an old photo or a newly staged "look vintage" photo. But, as far as hats go, isn't it glorious either way?


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Mirella

http://www.historyandwomen.com

That's another that looks even newer. I don't mean a 20th century costume attempting to look 19th century, but a contemporary hat from around the 1890s-1910ish era. I don't know that era well enough to guess any better, but surely it's nowhere near the 1860s, unless someone else can date it or explain.

 

[18thVirginia]

That's another that looks even newer. I don't mean a 20th century costume attempting to look 19th century, but a contemporary hat from around the 1890s-1910ish era. I don't know that era well enough to guess any better, but surely it's nowhere near the 1860s, unless someone else can date it or explain.

Okay, first, thanks to James B for keeping us on track with the headwear from the ACW era.

Guess I didn't quite make it clear--the other hats are Civil War period specific, from the 1860s. But this one I came across and kept the photo link because it's GLORIOUS and I thought a lover of hats like donna would get a kick out of it. My husband would tell you that I have a whimsical sense of humor and sometimes it gets away from me for a moment.

The hat is definitely later, however.

Perhaps it also reminded me of the hat in my avatar, which is a great-grandmother who did live through the Civil War. I'm not sure of the exact date of the photo--or hat.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

Yes, Adelicia was definitely interesting. And rich. And skedaddled as soon as the Union was coming. My kids have had piano recitals in what was her house.

 

[18thVirginia]

These are two hats from the movies that I doubt we'd ever find a Civil War period photograph of, although I'd hazard a guess that they're probably accurate, that women laboring to feed themselves and their children wore whatever was around.

Perhaps I like these because I actually had a shapeless kind of real felt hat like Renee's when I was young that I found on sale for a couple of dollars. Loved it and wore it on a fishing trip in the mountains with a young husband who had never fly fished--or fished much at all--and forgot to bring a net. When he caught his second trout--the first flipped back into the stream--my hat was sacrificed as a catch net. I assure you that the fish was a whole 1/2" over the legal limit.

Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain

http://maureenfunkdesigns.com/wp-co...le-kidman-6819448-1016-535-e1292335856233.jpg

Renee Zellweger in Cold Mountain

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2003_Cold_Mountain/003CMT_Renee_Zellweger_023.jpg

 

[donna]

18th Virginia I love the hat you posted for me. Thanks. It is glorious.

 

[samuel orris]

Everybody's busy looking at the photos and I just glanced at your avatar, 18th. How about that one?

 

[18thVirginia]

Everybody's busy looking at the photos and I just glanced at your avatar, 18th. How about that one?

See post #44 above. The year would be 1890s, I'm guessing.

 

[samuel orris]

See post #44 above. The year would be 1890s, I'm guessing.

Sorry! Man, I'm doing that alot lately . . . posting something somebody else has already posted.

 

[18thVirginia]

No problem, this is a thread that's informative, but also meant to be fun--hence the inclusion of Hollywood's take on women's fashionable Civil War headgear. And my avatar photo is slightly colorized.

One thing that I have realized is that it's helpful to look carefully at the fashions of the day, as James B White does, because it helps give an idea of how to date family photographs. I'd guess that hats particularly narrow things down, because the styles change more dramatically. I don't have any idea of the year of my photo in #44, but I think I'll have to go back and look at the hats of a younger generation to give me clues about what years that photo was taken.

 

[18thVirginia]

Here's a set of instructions for reenactors about appropriate Civil War hats for women. http://www.9thpareserves.org/docs/HeadWear.pdf

James B White, perhaps you can give us an opinion about how accurate they are?


And some Civil War hats from Godey's Lady's Book. See one below. http://www.victoriana.com/Victorian-Hats/victorianhat-1864.html

 

[18thVirginia]

The instructions for reenactors mentions riding hats. So, here are a couple from the costume designers that I thought were maybe a few decades later than the Civil War, but I have to admit that I love them.

NORTH AND SOUTH

Olivia de Havilland, Santa Fe Trail

 

[18thVirginia]

And here's a period hat that the museum says is French from the 1860s:

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection...+1800-1900&where=France&what=Silk|Hats&pos=16

 

[18thVirginia]

This is a Carte de Visite from the 1880s showing the same kind of hat. (pinterest)

 

[Northern Light]

And here's a period hat that the museum says is French from the 1860s:

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http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/113041?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=*&deptids=8&when=A.D. 1800-1900&where=France&what=Silk|Hats&pos=16

Drool!!!!

 

[Northern Light]

These are two hats from the movies that I doubt we'd ever find a Civil War period photograph of, although I'd hazard a guess that they're probably accurate, that women laboring to feed themselves and their children wore whatever was around.

Perhaps I like these because I actually had a shapeless kind of real felt hat like Renee's when I was young that I found on sale for a couple of dollars. Loved it and wore it on a fishing trip in the mountains with a young husband who had never fly fished--or fished much at all--and forgot to bring a net. When he caught his second trout--the first flipped back into the stream--my hat was sacrificed as a catch net. I assure you that the fish was a whole 1/2" over the legal limit.

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Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain

http://maureenfunkdesigns.com/wp-co...le-kidman-6819448-1016-535-e1292335856233.jpg

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Renee Zellweger in Cold Mountain

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2003_Cold_Mountain/003CMT_Renee_Zellweger_023.jpg

I loved Ruby Thewes!!!!!!!!

 

[18thVirginia]

The bonnets had a set of ties that held them on and were hidden by the longer, decorative sashes.

 

[18thVirginia]

Olivia de Havilland, They Died with Their Boots On

Nicole Kidman, Cold Mountain

 

[Patrick H]

The hats are all great, but I'm really digging the Olivia de Havilland pictures!