The Gainsborough Hat was also known as a "Picture Hat" or "Merry Widow" and it has fallen in and out of fashion, several times, since the 18th Century |
Princess Ena Favors Big Headgear
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New Hats Are Big Gainsboroughs — Won't Look at Cute Effects at All
The Irish Ladies' Industry association has secured almost a monopoly of the orders for lingerie, etc. The bride's hats are being made by Gainsborough, the main milliner, who has made the Princess Ena's hats since she put off baby bonnets, they are almost all made according to the Spanish taste— big picture hats with enormous ostrich feathers. The smart little hat of the early 60s, which is the fad in this country now, is not at all the thing in England or anywhere on the continent except in Paris. — Los Angeles Herald, 1906
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