Cloche hat

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Louise Brooks with cloche and bobcut

The bell hat (or French cloche "bell") was a bell-shaped lady's hat with a narrow, curved edge, in contrast to the rimless pot hat .

In 1920 Greta Garbo wears a cloche with the brim folded up at the front

It came into vogue in the 1920s and matched the sleek hairstyles of the time, especially the then fashionable bob cut . To emphasize the eyes, it was carried low over the forehead, which obstructed the view and had to be compensated for by tilting the head back. Alternatively, the front edge was bent up.

The cloche hat reappeared in the 1950s and in the form of a fashionable knitted hat in the 1970s.

literature

  • Ingrid Loschek: Reclam's fashion and costume lexicon. 5th edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010577-3 , p. 219

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internationally, the term cloche does not distinguish between bell hat and pot hat.
  2. ↑ NJ Stevenson: The History of Fashion. Haupt, Bern et al. 2011, p. 100