First published in 1865, this book is part of the V&A Fashion Perspectives Series. Selected by V&A publishing in consultation with our world-leading fashion curators, the Fashion Perspectives series offers an access all areas pass to the glamorous world of fashion. Models, magazine editors and the designers themselves take readers behind the scenes at the likes of Balenciaga, Balmain, Chanel, Dior, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue in the golden age of couture.
Table of Content
Accounts, singular mode of settlingAnglesea, Marquis
Athenian and Roman youths
Beaver, its ancient use
Billycock, its antiquity
Blocked hats
Brummell’s remarks
Buttoned bonnets
Cambridge hats
Caps, thrummed, protected by Queen Elizabeth
Clement, St., invented felt
Cylinder of funnel hat
Dickens’s, Mr. Charles, attach on ‘chimney pots’
D’Orsay, Count
Eldon, Lord, stood on his hat
Essex, Walter Devereux, Earl
Essex, Robert Devereux
Fox, Charles
French silk hat-makers came to England
George IV.
Harrington, Earl
Hazlitt, Mr. W
Henry VIII
Holland, Queen of
Hunt, Leigh
James of Scotland
Landseer, Sir Edwin
Louis Philippe, Melton’s patrons and advertisement
Napoleon
Napoleon III
Petasus
Pitt, William, his hat
Princess of Prussia
Prince Consort
Prince of Wales
Princess of Wales
Punch, a good artist
Quakers’ hats
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Stamford and Warrington, Earl
Stamp on hats
The Queen
Umbrella hats
Walton, Mr., portrait of Prince of Wales
Wellington, Duke
William III. revolutionised hats
William IV.
Wilson, Mr., of the ‘Economist, ‘ a hatter
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