Evening hat
ca. 1890
Medium
Silk
Classification
Evening hat
Culture
British
Department
Costume Institute
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Cuyler T. Rawlins, 1959
Accession Number
2009.300.5062
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegance of late Victorian Britain with this exquisite *Evening Hat* crafted by Henry Heath Limited around 1890. Made of luxurious silk, a prized material for its shimmering sheen and lightweight drape, this piece exemplifies the opulent millinery of the era. Henry Heath Limited, a renowned London-based hatmaker favored by the fashionable elite, specialized in innovative designs that blended tradition with emerging trends, often adorning heads at grand soirées and theater outings. In the 1890s, as women's silhouettes shifted toward the fuller Gibson Girl bustles and elaborate up...