Customer Reviews

Hats and Bonnets (Fashion & Style)

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Wonderful photos of the collection. After devouring all the information as well as the photos... you just have purchase the other books from the series to complete the set! Interesting background on the collector himself, in the book's introduction. A good source of information and ideas for anyone interested in 18th and 19th century headwear.

As a person who studies fashion and historical fashion as an avocation, I particularly like books with excellent pictures of fashions and accessories that are actually from the period and not historical plates from magazines, though I believe renderings extremely helpful. With a clear picture, one can derive better methods for recreation in historical costuming ventures. I have long been a fan of the Snowshill collection. I loved this little book. I hope there are more published. I appreciate the fine photographs, the brief and informative descriptions. The color and fabric choices of history very interesting and can spend an hour or two with one book trying to absorb every detail. I have the Shoes and Slippers book as well as the Hats and Bonnets book. They are wonderful additions to my costume library.

This little book contains lovely photos and info on bonnets and hats from the 18th and 19th centuries. It's a small book, and I was left wishing it contained more examples of the exquisite Snowshill collection, however, I enjoyed it greatly. Can't wait to get the other Snowshill book on shoes and slippers and hope they publish more in the future.

This book provides some excellent detailed photographs of period hats and bonnets that is very useful to anyone who wishes to reproduce accurate headwear. The text provides some general information about each period, but I would have preferred more in-depth information about the construction and specifics of the hats and bonnets in the pictures. It also would have been more helpful from a milliner's perspective if they focused on one period instead of a general overview of the collection. To be able to look at 10 hats and bonnets from 1750-1780 (for example) instead of only one or two would give anyone reproducing period headwear a more complete concept of general stylistic trends and construction techniques. However, as a visual reference, it is pure eye candy!

I was disappointed that there were not more hats from the 1770's. I guess many did not survive. The Shoes from Snowhill had better variety of shoes.