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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 9861, member: 67&quot;]I have been doing a review of mourning wear from 1805 thru 1920 (a long period, I know) and I have been going thru hundreds of issues of women&#039;s magazines and fashion magazines. I probably have over 400 images of mourning fashion scanned or down loaded. (I actually got a little mind boggled, and set the project aside a few months ago but I&#039;m about ready to pick it up again. More of a winter activity for me.) </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not like I haven&#039;t studied women&#039;s fashion before (I had one of the first vintage clothing shops in our town in the 1970s) Anyway, in the course of this recent research, I also looked at millinery magazines, (veils and all), and I know I have seen this exact same hat in one of those hat books. It may have been as early as 1816. I think that everyone is looking at the trim as a fuddy duddy maid sort of thing, and that obviously isn&#039;t the case here. It&#039;s a fresh-from-Paris sort of trim that goes in and out of style in a season. Find it in a fashion book and you will be able to date the photo exactly. Because the lady who owned this hat would typically take it to the milliner 6 months later to replace the trim with feathers or huge roses or what ever was in style next.</p><p><br /></p><p>The general dating is for the silhouette and proportion (to the head). The earlier hats were shorter and less bucket like. Also, when researching, you have to discount pinterest, and eBay sellers, unless the postcard is dated, but still, the best source is period fashion spreads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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