Categories: Collections, Curator's Cache, Online Exhibits, Past Exhibits
“In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade…” so sang Fred Astaire and many others in the popular song, but having a new hat in the latest fashion has been around for a long time. The Winnetka ladies who wore these hats when they […]
Categories: Collections, Curator's Cache, Online Exhibits, Past Exhibits
Christmas tree hat, 1965. Gift of Eleanor Tippens. Velvet and white fur hat and stole, 1897. Gift of Frances Drummer Logan. Beaver fur top hat, c. 1930. Gift of Elizabeth Knode Greeley. The Winnetka Historical Society has approximately 800 hats in our collection. Because they are rarely seen, we thought it would be fun to […]
