When did you get that hat? My guess—ca. 1938

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If ever there was a time for wild hats, it was the late 1930s.  Life magazine even did a special spread on hat madness in late 1937 called “Anything Goes as a Hat for a Woman.” It featured gloves, huge flowers, and gigantic bows on headgear, in addition to Schiaparelli’s famous shoe hat.  I thought the shape of the hat above resembled one called a “felt catchall.”

Life magazine, November 22 1937

So the hat in my photograph has a late 1930s look, but what about the clothes? The skirt length seemed to be from about 1938, but the straight silhouette didn’t quite fit my image of the era.

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However, then I found this image from 1938 that was a close match the shape of the jacket and, to some degree, the skirt.

To add icing to the cake, Witness2Fashion featured a wonderful post on spectator shoes from that same year.  Some are similar to the ones my lady is wearing.

So I think this stylish woman was heading out to lunch around 1938. What do you say?

 

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One Response to When did you get that hat? My guess—ca. 1938

  1. eimear says:

    when I was a child in the 70s all ladies wore hats to mass on sunday – and headscarves were still ‘a thing’ – funny how hats have fallen by the wayside a bit – and if you are to buy a hat now its hard to get certain styles (to my mind) – my aunt is short and would forever give-out that she could not get a pill-box style (in the 90s as she used have to go to an annual horserace to present a prize) – in the end I offered to recover one she had……

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