GRAY PILLBOX WITH PINK SWIRLS

Creator(s): Esther Kirwan Steck (Designer)

Currently in storage

About this object

Pillbox shaped hat with sides decorated in overlapping swirls of silk fabric which graduate in color from gray at the outside edge to peach in the center; arranged in an overlapping pattern which overlap the top and the bottom of the form. The crown in covered in a silver metallic fabric. The frame is scalloped along the lower edge and is lined with “dusty rose” colored taffeta. The lining is signed by the maker in peach colored threads and stitched with a “+” to indicate the front of the hat. The hat form is made of buckram

Object name:

GRAY PILLBOX WITH PINK SWIRLS

Made from:

silk -- silver metallic fabric -- taffeta

Made in:

Washington, USA

Date made:

ca. 1960

Size:

7 × 17.8 × 21.6 cm (2 3/4 × 7 × 8 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

2012.9.40

Signature marks:

SIGNATURE

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973