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#6819 -
c. 1920's
RARE
Pink Silk "Hair" Flapper Cloche! The ULTIMATE Flapper
Headpiece! Likely Parisian! I will reiterate from the
listing above... If you have been one of my website groupies for
awhile, you might have seen the gold bullion "hair" cloche I sold
some years back (still in my sold museum section). I bought that
last one in London and hated to sell it as I had never seen another
in my 35+ years of collecting. So, since then I've been
searching everywhere for others! AMAZINGLY, I found two of
these recently and again, it kills me to put these up on the website
as I just LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!! And since, if asked
what I would most like to collect, it would be flapper headpieces.
But I know there are others of "me" out there also with flapper
collections, so... WAAAHHH.... you get the opportunity to own these
forever! Absolutely amazing!! It's
a cloche woven with pink silk threads in the shape of a classic
1920's hairdo... complete with the wavy hairs all over, and the
pinned up "longer" hair at the back and coiled at the sides in braids
(Princess Leahish!). This piece has the original tiny purply-blue
flowers at the sidepieces!! Nice!! I suppose this is the ultimate hat for a "bad
hair day"!!! Excellent condition with the only thing to
mention a bit of "hair" out of place for an ever so slightly "tousled" look, and
the silk interior is torn (though in most cases this would just be a
total loss, so nice to still have some of the original interior
silk... with writing!). This will easily fit a
22" head, and even a 23" head! Nearly impossible to
measure, but it's large on my normal 22" head (as you can see in the
photos) and will fit, but higher on the 23" head - see other photos).
I assume originally this was worn by a women who didn't yet want to
cut her long hair into the fashionable "bob", so wore this over that
full hair (which is why it's larger). Absolutely a
Museum quality piece! Likely Parisian piece - has some writing inside with name.
SOLD
- but on display in Museum Category for Research/Display
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