Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles

Women's Hats, Headdresses and HairstylesFrom simple barbettes, crespines, and wimples worn in Anglo Saxon times to the pillbox hat popularized by Jackie Kennedy in the mid twentieth century, hats and headdresses have for centuries played an important part of a lady's wardrobe. This informative and meticulously researched book provides an authentic record of more than 1,300 years of changing fashions in women's hairstyles and headwear in England. More than 400 of the author's own drawings

illustrate and extend the material

Bruno Hessling

and the practice of mokomokai: the preservation of the heads of Maori ancestors

rigorous exposition of theory

women's limited roles

depiction of the human figure was tolerated in private dwellings such as harems and baths

Among many other hard-to-find stories are "King Gram

Preistley & Weale

the only language fluid dynamics speaks

basket weavers

traditional farming

and a variety of other techniques that lend a distinctive charm to each item