Not too long along I posted about turbans - the first of three blogs on vintage hats. This is the second: 1920s - 1940s. Flapper sequin caps, felt cloches, headband corsages and even top hats. It's all here.
Paula Gellibrand, 1928
Couturier Jeanne Lanvin with one of her creations
Anita Page
Michelle Violy Harper models a very rare gold thread flapper wig
Greta Garbo
Coco Chanel in a beret, 1926
Coco Chanel
Girl in New York, 1929
Kay Francis, 1930
Myrna Loy
Bette Davis
Mesh cloche hat by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1930s. I used this photograph in my Halloween blog last month - to view online click here.
Elsa testing out hats on a model in her atelier
Wallis Simpson
Joan Crawford. Those nails!
Vogue cover from 1935
Bebe Daniels
Marlene Dietrich starred in 1930 film Morocco. She played a cabaret singer who wore a man's tuxedo and top hat and who kissed female members of her audience - scandalous at the time:
Vogue 1938
Vogue 1938
French actress Lili Damita with her pals
Vogue 1939
Ocelot pillbox, 1941
Vogue 1945
Kay Francis
Lilly Dolores
Vogue, c.1940s
Loretta Young
Empress-style hat with fur cape
Janis Paige
Hattie Carnegie hood, 1943
Lucille Ball
Vogue 1945
Vogue 1941
Vogue 1944
Mary Carlyle
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Dina Merrill, 1944
Hat by Walter Florell, c.1940s
Maria Montez
Vogue 1944
Carmen Dell'Orefice, 1947
Dorian Leigh, 1946
Vogue, c.1940s
Jean Patchett in a beret, 1949
Fashion editorial from 1947
I used the above image in a blog about the little black dress - to read online click here. Dior's 1947 New Look straw hat, created in miniature for Barbie:
Hat by Dior, 1948
Vogue 1948
Model at a cafe in Lima, Peru 1949
Vogue 1949
Norman Parkinson, 1949
