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150 pages - Narrative plus letters, illustrated
with family photos, period catalogs, and magazine
ads, as well as color images of 61 carefully
restored hats, which span the decades from the
teens to the sixties.
- Fashion History
- Hats History
- Hat Restoration
- American History
- Family History
- Women's Studies
- Popular Culture
- Gender Studies
- American Craft
- Customs and Manners
- History of Private Life
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Mamie's Hats 1914-1960: A Social History Through
Hats is a story of Mamie, my grandmother, and
her three daughters, my aunt Marguerite, my mother
Mary Katharine, and Dorothy, my other aunt. It is,
therefore, a story about me. Because of them, I was
surrounded by sewing and dolls and doll clothes and
new dresses and hats and gloves, yes, even white
gloves. This is a story about their hats and what
they wore, and indirectly, how all of that
influenced me. The story starts with the hats,
discovered forgotten in an attic, lovingly
retrieved, restored and photographed, and extends
out into the world. As with any good detective
story, I followed the clues embedded in the hats,
letting them take me where they would. Where did
each one come from? Who designed it? Who wore it?
What did it mean as a social statement? What was
going on in the world when it was worn? I looked in
libraries, contemporary magazines, and the family
archive to find answers. I did web searches, went to
The Hat Museum here in Portland, and even visited an
obscure museum in the nearby Columbia Gorge. It is a
story of how we are all connected and affected by
world events, how fashion is shaped by the needs of
a society in a certain time and place, and how we
are influenced by those around us. We each think we
are so special and individual, but really, we are
all part of a grand wave, mostly moving along
together, but with a few odd splashes and ripples,
to make things interesting. This then, is the story
of three generations of one family’s women, the
clothes they wore, and why.
~Susan Lilly~
Susan Lilly, who was a costume designer for
twenty-four years, is fascinated with the minutia
of daily life, and the social meaning of material
culture.
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