Multicolored striped hat with bow

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A striped brimmed hat with a large abstract bow. The exterior of the hat is made of striped silk synthetic satin in green, pink, and yellow. The top of the crown is flat and circular. The sides of the crown have three upward facing pleats. There is a large self-fabric bow at the center front of the hat on the bias stitched with wire on the bow's edge. The crown and brim are made of buckram and are machine stitched together. The brim is circular, the striped fabric on the exterior is set on the bias and slightly gathered and secured to the underbrim at an angle. A metal wire is placed at the edge of the brim. At the inside of the hat there is a petersham ribbon machine stitched to the edge of the crown.

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