Chapeau!

Le Carre Hermes Paris > Automne-Hiver 1990/91

Elegant variations on the theme of women's headgear down the ages. Here, a selection of wigs, hats and bonnets, their nicknames suggesting anything from a galleon in ull sail to the humble snapdragon. The elaborate piled-up edifices fashionable in Louis XIV's reign were reduced to more acceptible proportions under Louis XV. Marie-Antoinette invented the plumed, flower-bedecked "pouf". Modesty returned with the Revolution. Such are the ups and downs of History.