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Woman's Hat (Bergère)circa 1760

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Museum display of an 18th-century women's ensemble on a white mannequin: cream floral-striped silk polonaise gown with blue stripes, sage green underskirt, wide straw hat, and white fichu
18th-century silk robe à la polonaise on a dress form, shown from a three-quarter rear view. Cream ground fabric with a woven pattern of blue stripes and small floral sprigs; skirt looped up at the back revealing an olive green quilted underskirt. White lace fichu at the neckline, elbow-length sleeves with ruffles, and a wide-brimmed straw hat atop a white powdered wig.

Unknown, Woman's Hat (Bergère), circa 1760, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. H. Grant Theis and Nelly Llanos Kilroy, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Woman's Hat (Bergère)
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1760
Medium
Straw, cotton plain weave, and silk plain weave ribbon with supplementary weft-float patterning trim
Dimensions
Overall: 2 3/8 x 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (6.0325 x 52.07 x 52.07 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. H. Grant Theis and Nelly Llanos Kilroy
Accession Number
M.2001.56
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • Edwards, Lydia. How to Read a Dress: a Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.