Easter Bonnets Through Time: 1922

1862 Bonnet https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/98105?&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&deptids=62%7c8&ft=bonnet&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=17

Wedding bonnet c. 1872 http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O230796/wedding-bonnet-unknown/

Velvet bonnet with beading and plume, 1880s https://www.augusta-auction.com/search-past-sales?view=lot&id=18126&auction_file_id=48

1892 evening bonnet 1892 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156275?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&deptids=62%7c8&when=A.D.+1800-1900&ao=on&ft=evening+gown+silk+pearl&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=7

1902 Virot hat https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157031?sortBy=Relevance&ft=virot&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1

1912 hat with a fountain of plumes. http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/220048.html?mulR=597848183|113

Picture hat attributed to Lanvin, 1922 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/104694?&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&deptids=62%7c8&ft=hat+1922&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=19

Straw cloche, 1922 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/169128?sortBy=Relevance&ft=cloche&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1

Mrs Daffodil’s Aide-memoire:  The article showcasing Easter Bonnets Through Time is headed:

“FUNNY WHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW YEARS MAKE” IN EASTER BONNETS and comes from the Muncie [IN] Evening Press 14 April 1922: p. 16.

It is rather amusing how quickly the precise silhouettes of historical garments fade from memory. Several of these suggest the approximate “18th-century” costumes worn by ladies at Martha Washington teas. “Miss 1862” suggests Miss Lillian Gish in a period silent film. While some of these hats are not bad and may actually be antique specimens, there is also the whimsical idea that any big hat with a feather is Victorian.

Mrs Daffodil hopes all of her readers who celebrate Easter or Spring are possessed of delightfully becoming bonnets!

Mrs Daffodil invites you to join her on the curiously named “Face-book,” where you will find a feast of fashion hints, fads and fancies, and historical anecdotes

You may read about a sentimental succubus, a vengeful seamstress’s ghost, Victorian mourning gone horribly wrong, and, of course, Mrs Daffodil’s efficient tidying up after a distasteful decapitation in A Spot of Bother: Four Macabre Tales.