Straw hat with cream tulle tail and artificial flowers from Mae's Millinery Shop

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Tan straw hat with tulle streamer and artificial flower decorations designed by Mae Reeves. The hat has a high rounded crown and a wide circular brim that is turned up all around. A length of cream tulle is wrapped around the crown as a hat band and tied at the center back, with two long tails extending beyond the brim as streamers down the center back. Two (2) artificial roses, one very pale pink and the other burgundy, are adhered at the proper right side of the crown. A white tag with black text sewn at the inter center back that reads "Mae Reeves / OF / PHILADELPHIA".

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