The history of women's hats: a long and delightful

The history of women's hats: a long and delightful
Contemporaneity

female hat history Hats for Women began to be widely used in the Middle Ages, when the church began to demand that women be sure to go with his head covered. However, officially the profession milliner appeared only in the eighteenth century and originated the history of women's hats.

The word 'milliner »(milliner) appeared in Milan, where in the early eighteenth century, made of the finest women's hats of straw. Over time, the profession remains predominantly female.

The origin of fashion hats

For most of the eighteenth century in fashion dominated flat hats in the style of a shepherdess with fields of varying widths. Aristocrat wore these hats to be closed from the sun and keep the noble pallor - parasols at the time were not yet in vogue.

In the 1770s (a time of great wigs and high hair) hats were designed to protect hair from various weather troubles. Silk fabric stretched on wooden bars, or whalebone, hat rested on the tapes that tied under the chin.

In the 1780s, under the influence of the French Revolution for the hats began to use simpler materials. Cotton caps became popular in almost all sectors of society. Elite still wore hats (sometimes over the bonnet) of silk with high tulyami. After the revolution hats went out of fashion - they are associated with the upper classes of society, and at the time was considered a democratic fashion in clothing.

From the 1790s to the 1820s in England it was in fashion variations turban - this was due, of course, in the colonial activities of the British Empire.

In 1810's in vogue straw hoods. The alternative they were cheap hoods made of cardboard, which gave the desired shape and then covered with cloth and decorated with ribbons. To thirty years of the nineteenth century hoods have increased significantly in size - so much so that when viewed from the side they are completely concealed profile of a woman. By Kapor added veil that protects the face from prying views and sunlight.

Already in the next decade, the field bonnet markedly decreased, but still cover the hair of women, and a significant part of her face. By the mid 1850's hood is fully opened and the face of the hair Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development women. Behind a hood was attached wide ribbon, which was not only to keep the hat on his head, and closed neck. In the fashion of the time, the neck can be opened only when the woman wore evening dress. For a brief period in vogue wide-brimmed hats with a low crown, which, as in the eighteenth century, sometimes worn directly on the hood.

In the 1860s began to hit new fashionable umbrellas and hoods, except for the cold season, it began to be used solely as a decorative piece of clothing. Kapor size decreased, but they were decorated with bouquets of flowers. Some hoods have decreased to small triangular pieces of silk Silk - a legacy of the Yellow Emperor or woven straw, which, however, tied under a chin wide ribbons.

Return the cap

Soon, however, started to come back into fashion hats. So already in the late 1860s ladies began wearing hats with a pointed top and a little "doll" hat, often decorated with feathers. The last part is fixed to the front of the fashion in this era of high hair.

In the 1880s and 1890s, hats and hoods are constantly competing with each other. Women who want to look more modest, generally preferred to wear hoods, which is why the headdress Headgear: the variety of fashion accessories more associated with old-fashioned and respectable matrons. In the mid-1880s, there were very high hat, which is justly called the "trehetazhkami" or "pots". The crown of the hat were disproportionately huge and richly decorated with flowers. In the last decade of the nineteenth century women's clothing has become more convenient and suitable for outdoor activities, and the corresponding transformation occurred and with caps - their size has decreased dramatically.