Florentine hat
Empress Eugénie with a Florentine hat. Franz Xaver Winterhalter , 1857
The Florentine hat is a flat, wide-brimmed straw hat decorated with flowers or a veil . In the original it was made from wheat straw . Frequently guard by Hutbänder out was Rips , chiffon or silk decorated. Long ties made of silk or grosgrain were often attached to the back of the hat.
It was mainly worn as a summer hat from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century and was also a fashion accessory in women's clothing in the 1930s and 1950s .
literature
- Entry hat . In: Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon . Bibliographisches Institut, Lexikonverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1975, Volume 12, p. 365.
- Erika Thiel: History of the Costume . Henschel-Verlag, Berlin, 8th edition 2004, ISBN 3-89487-260-8 , p. 352.
Web links
- Hats. Hats - historical headgear 1800–1960. Archived from the original on November 8, 2010 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Europeana.eu: Florentine hats from the City History Museum in Leipzig , accessed on December 29, 2013