What you are looking at
Barely a hat: a small mount of dove-grey satin loops, cream lace and a dark beaded net base with rhinestones and sequins, made to perch on hair worn up. Evening hats shrank to ornaments in the 1890s, partly good manners in a theatre seat, partly because the hair itself had become the structure. Madame Tierce was a milliner working under her own name, which was how the trade worked: the shop was the woman. Given by Mrs. Robert G. Olmsted to the Brooklyn Museum in 1965, transferred to the Met in 2009.
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The maker
Madame Tierce
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ca. 1895
Evening hat
Silk, linen, rhinestones, metallic beads, sequins
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1965
1965
Given to The Met. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Robert G. Olmsted, 1965
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Today
In the Met's collection
On record and open to study.
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About the label: Madame Tierce
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