Brims Collection

Hat Styles for 1920
A rather shady set : a page from Barribals sketchbook shows a selection of hats including a beret style & cloche hats with wide brims or round or square crowns

Advert for womens skating and dancing costumes
Advertisement for womens skating and dancing costumes -- The Lighter Side of Sports Life. The dancing outfits are from Dickins and Jones, Regent Street, London

Advert for womens hats from Henry Heath, London
Advertisement for womens hats from Henry Heath, Oxford Street, London -- Two Sides to the Hat Question: The Battle of the Brims. Date: 1930

Selection of fashionable hats 1929
Shady hats for cloudless skies. Selection of womens hats. 1929

HATS BY CAMILLE ROGER
Three hats by Camille Roger: all worn low over the eyes. Two have broad straight brims. Trimmings include rosettes with streamer ends and feathers. Date: 1921

Sad irons, curling and goffering irons
A selection of home appliances, as featured in a catalogue. A sad iron and stand, a polishing iron, a spirit iron, a hat iron for ironing brims and a Dalli box iron are pictured

French Costumes 1460-80
Men: shallow caps with upturned brims, jackets with pleats & doublets. Women: gown with fur borders, V -neck with revers, kirtle, hood-like headdress, hood with liripipe. Date: 1460 - 1480

Noble & Middle Class C14
Clothing of the upper & middle class: voluminous outer garments resembling cloaks or mantles, fur hats with narrow up-turned brims. N.B shoes with bars, pouch & dagger. Date: 14th century

German Officials 1670
German professionals (possibly legal dress): full-bottomed wigs, hats with cocked brims, coats with deep turned back cuffs like boot-cuffs, cloaks. Date: 1670

High-Waisted Frocks 1918
The silhouette at the close of decade: skirts have become less full but narrow at the hem, waist-lines remain high. Hats: high crowns & narrow brims. Shoes: high heals & bows. Date: 1918

Hats: Brims and Blossoms, 1927
The burgeoning of brims and blossoms - summer hats are flower trimmed and at last attain perfect crowns for the shingled heads. Models from Harvey Nicholls. Date: 1927

Japan - Traditional Provincial Hat Maker working at the roadside. Date: circa 1907

M. I. N. Regiment group photo, Cameroon, Africa, WW1
Lieutenant Lane of the M.I.N. Regiment, in a group photo with native soldiers at Sava, Cameroon, west central Africa, during the First World War. Date: 1914

Costume / Gimbel Bros 1914
Fur hat, stole, fur-trimmed coat, double skirts (narrow under-skirt) or long jackets creating a tunic effect, hats with broad brims & vertical trim, Louis heel boots

Summer 1915 / Bon Ton
Summertime fashions for women & girls by Paquin, Doucet, Beer etc. N.B tunic dresses, short voluminous skirts & small vertical hats & feathers or broad brims & flowers

Hat Styles for 1787
Hats profusely ornamented with feathers, bows, ribbons & flowers. Stripes are very much in vogue. Some have broad flat brims, others have a brim that tapers outwards & downwards

Vichy Fashions 1915
Girls: loose smock or drop waist. Women: styles ranging from a single long skirt to the fashionable voluminous skirts. Also Louis heeled shoes, hats - broad brims or vertical feathers

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