Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers

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

A hat with peach, green, beige, and yellow fabric flowers. The hat is composed of stiff synthetic net blocked to shape with synthetic peach, green, beige, and yellow fabric flowers glued to the outer crown. Each cluster of flowers has green stems and leaves made from wire and paper. There is a large cream colored rose at the center front of the hat with petals made from synthetic plain weave fabric and synthetic velvet with four green paper leaves surrounding it. The hat has a narrow brim made from folded and stiffened buckram that has been covered in a cream-colored panel of synthetic organza. The inside of the hat is unlined, however, a cream colored synthetic Petersham ribbon is sewn around the interior crown. At the interior center back of the hat is a white fabric label that reads [WOODWARD & LOTHROP / WASHINGTON, D.C.] in black text.

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