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FASHION FORWARD

The “Fashion Forward” display focuses on the development of women’s fashion from the Victorian era into the 1960s. The display contains artifacts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as gloves, hat/hair pins and a hat from 1905/1906. In the 1890s, hats were often heavily decorated, with tulle or floral accents. Many women also wore “masculine” styles, such as the “boater” or “trilby” hats. This trend continued into the 1900s. Alongside the shifting silhouette of women’s fashion, in the late 1910s and 1920s, hats sat closer to the head to accommodate for shorter hairstyles and often was adorned with jewels or feathers. An example

of this is the cloche hat, which was a bell-shaped hat that fit snugly around a woman’s head. In the 1930s, hat brims reappeared; since parasols had gone out of fashion, wide-brimmed hats protected women from the sun.

ARTIFACTS IN THIS CABINET • Godey’s Fashion Magazine engravings, c. 1850s • Women’s leather gloves, c. 1899 • .Ida Humphrey’s hat/hair pins, c. 1910s-1920s • Women’s beaver fur hat, c. 1905-1906